Manuscript letters to members of the Williams family of Bodelwyddan

Item author: Mrs Hester Lynch Piozzi
Item date: 1796 - 1821
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 30,000
Item date acquired: 1984
Item institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire

570 letters bound into 11 volumes by the Chester bookseller J Seacombe shortly after Mrs Piozzis death. The Williams family were neighbours of the Piozzis in Wales and amongst their closest friends. Due to an early threat of legal action, the letters remained largely unknown and unpublished until their arrival at the library