BIB_ID
136602
Accession number
MA 497.10
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Display Date
1768 Mar. 8.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 23.2 cm
Notes
Identity of the recipient from W.S. Lewis.
Part of a collection of the correspondence of Horace Walpole to various recipients including Henry Seymour Conway, Benjamin Ibbot and Horace Mann and with a small number of miscellaneous writings and copies of the writings of others. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of the correspondence of Horace Walpole to various recipients including Henry Seymour Conway, Benjamin Ibbot and Horace Mann and with a small number of miscellaneous writings and copies of the writings of others. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Given by Mary Berry to Sir Frankland Lewis; by descent to his daughter-in-law Lady Theresa Lewis; by descent to her son Sir Thomas Villiers Lister; by descent to his wife Lady Lister; acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1904.
Summary
Thanking him for his help in reading and research; commenting on the "two new volumes of Swift;" saying "The second is the dullest heap of trumpery, flattery, and folly. The first is curious indeed! what a man! what childish, vulgar stuff;" and on Sterne "I think you will like Sterne's sentimental travels, which though often tiresome, are exceedingly good-natured and picturesque;" commenting, in a postscript, on the robbery and fire at [Henry Seymour] Conway's house.
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