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.
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.
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