HESTHER LYNCH, who was the daughter of John Salusbury, Esq. of Bodvil in Caernarvonshire, and was born in 1739, is celebrated for her connection with Dr Johnson. In 1764, the year after her marriage with her first husband, the wealthy brewer Thrale, her intimacy with the great moralist began. A turn for literature, a fondness for intelligent conversation, and a smart, lively fancy, enabled her to appreciate his society. Apartments were allotted to him in her house in the city, and in her villa at Streatham; and her hospitable table was the scene of many of his most brilliant nights. She continued to soothe his hypochondria, and study his wayward tastes, until her marriage with the Italian musician Piozzi in 1784 broke off the friendship. Even then the connection between the two names did not cease. In 1786, while living in Florence, she wrote a book narrating, in a flippant, garulous, and clever style, many of the superstitious whims, the ridiculous oddities, the brow-beating retorts, and the vehement outbursts of the departed lexicographer. Up till her death, too, in 1821, she continued to talk to another generation about the great men of the Johnsonian age. Besides her Anecdotes of Dr Johnson, Mrs Piozzi published A Collection of Letters to and from Dr Johnson; a popular poem, entitled The Three Warnings; and several miscellaneous works. A book entitled Piozziana, by a Friend, appeared in 1833.