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A parody of Lord Chesterfields letters to his son, Introduction : autograph manuscript, [1774].

BIB_ID
330965
Accession number
MA 493.3
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
[1774].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before, 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 31.2 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of four autograph manuscripts by Horace Walpole. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
This manuscript is undated, however, Chesterfield's "Letters to his Son" was published on April 7, 1774 and in a letter to the Countess of Ossory, dated Thursday, August 11, 1774, Walpole discusses the parody he has written of the letters.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Summary
Being a two-page "Introduction" to "A Parody of Lord Chesterfields Letters to his Son;" written on the recto and verso of one leaf.