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Excerpt from Doctor Johnson and Mrs. Thrale: Including Mrs. Thrale's Unpublished Journal of the Welsh Tour Made in 1774 and Much Hitherto Unpublished Correspondence of the Streatham Coterie
I am anxious to express the very special obligation I am under to Mr. O. B. Fellowes, the descendant and representative of Sir James Fellowes, Mrs. Thrale-piozzi's friend and executor, for access to much hitherto unpublished matter, as well as for permission to reproduce in exact facsimile the miniature of that lady painted by Roche of Bath in 1817. I am also indebted either for illustrations, valuable information or useful suggestions to the Marquis of Lansdowne, k.g., the Bishop of St. Asaph, Colonel Sir Robert Thomson white-thomson, Mr. Frederick Leverton Harris, m.p., Mr. W. A. Wood, Sheriff of Lich field Colonel H. D. Williams, Mr. Aleyn Lyell Reade, Mr. Charles Perkins, of Park Street, Southwark; Colonel Thrale Perkins, Mrs. Hugh Perkins, of F ulwood Park, Liverpool; Mrs. A. M. Knollys, Mrs. Mainwaring, of Brynbella; the Reverend E. J. Edwards, Vicar of Tre meirchion; Mrs. Salusbury, widow of the late Major Edward Pemberton Salusbury Mr. H. Baldwin, of Streatham; Mr. And Mrs. Myddelton, of Chirk Castle; Mr. W. M. Myddelton, Mr. Richard F. Myddelton, Mr. Philip P. Pennant, of Nantwys; Mr. Foulkes Roberts.
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