The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821

THE INTIMATE LETTERS OF HESTER PIOZZI & PENELOPE PENNINGTON 1788-1821
BY THE SAME AUTHOR AN ARTIST'S LOVE STORY
M rs . Hester Lynch Piozzi.
Engraved by H. Meyer ,
from an original Drawing by J. Jackson.
EDITED BY OSWALD G. KNAPP
WITH THIRTY ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY TORONTO: BELL & COCKBURN. MCMXIV
Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh
MY WIFE

The letters included in this volume have been printed without alteration, except that some of Mrs. Piozzi's redundant initial capitals have been suppressed, and that her somewhat erratic punctuation has been, to a certain extent, systematised. Her spelling, save for the correction of obvious slips, which are very rare, has not been altered. The omitted passages, which have been indicated wherever they occur, mainly consist of formal compliments at the beginning or end of letters, to which she was much addicted, unsavoury medical details, or casual allusions to insignificant persons and trivial events of no interest in themselves, and having no direct bearing on the story of her life.