1932 JOHNSON And QUEENEY Letters Thrale Bowood Papers

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1932 JOHNSON And QUEENEY Letters Thrale Bowood Papers:
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Johnson and Queeney: Letters from Dr. Johnson to Queeney Thrale from the Bowood Papers

Edited by the Marquis of Lansdowne

1932 - London and New York - Cassell and Co and RandomHouse

9\" by 6\", xxxv, 62pp plus plates

DETAILS

The letters Samuel Johnson wrote to his dear friend Hester Maria Thrale, known by Johnson\'s nickname for her: Queeney.

With an introduction by the editor, the Marquis of Lansdowne.

\'This edition is limited to 500 copies of which 250 copies are for sale in England by Cassell and Co and 250 copies for sale in America by Random House\'. This copy is unnumbered out of series.

With a portrait frontispiece and numerous further plates throughout, many depicting the letters themselves.

Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith born Hester Maria Thrale (17 September 1764 – 31 March 1857), was a British literary correspondent and intellectual. Johnson gave Hester Maria her lifelong nickname \"Queeney\" (after Queen Esther) early in her childhood, and was a regular correspondent of the little girl as well as of her mother. On 10 January 1808, aged 44, Queeney Thrale married the widowed Admiral Lord Keith, a distinguished and celebrated senior Naval officer 19 years her senior who had amassed a considerable fortune from prize-money during the Napoleonic wars. They had met in 1791, four years after the death of Lord Keith\'s first wife, and corresponded for 16 years before their marriage. The \"Queeney letters\", a large collection of letters addressed to Queeney by Johnson, Fanny Burney and her mother Hester was published in 1934.

CONDITION

In marbled paper boards. Externally sound although rubbed. Internally, firmly bound, bright and clean, one or two handling marks. Overall: VERY GOOD.

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