Transcript in an unidentified hand, probably addressed to
Hester Lynch
Thrale
, in a section of the Thrale Piozzi Collection
described as "Poems in various hands, some initialled or signed, other copied...
there are 135 items, dated between c. 1735 and 1820." Beneath the sonnet
is written "This is the Sonnet I was mentioning to you of Grays
which you did not recollect...".