BIB_ID
330966
Accession number
MA 494.1
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
17[89] Feb. 2.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 19.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed "To Miss Berry, Somerset Street."
Dated by Walpole "Feb. 2, 17-- and 71." A note by Mary Berry clarifies: "The date is thus put alluding to his age which in 1789 was 71."
Location of writing identified by Lewis as [Berkeley Square].
Numbered "No. 1."
Part of a collection of letters from Horace Walpole to Mary and Agnes Berry. Items in the collection have been described individually; see related collection-level record for more information. See also MA 495 (Letters from Walpole to the Misses Berry, 1791-1793); MA 496 (Letters from Walpole to the Misses Berry, 1794-1796, and letters from the Misses Berry to Walpole); and MA 497 (letters to various persons and miscellaneous writings).
Dated by Walpole "Feb. 2, 17-- and 71." A note by Mary Berry clarifies: "The date is thus put alluding to his age which in 1789 was 71."
Location of writing identified by Lewis as [Berkeley Square].
Numbered "No. 1."
Part of a collection of letters from Horace Walpole to Mary and Agnes Berry. Items in the collection have been described individually; see related collection-level record for more information. See also MA 495 (Letters from Walpole to the Misses Berry, 1791-1793); MA 496 (Letters from Walpole to the Misses Berry, 1794-1796, and letters from the Misses Berry to Walpole); and MA 497 (letters to various persons and miscellaneous writings).
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
Regretting that he is previously engaged that evening, but looking forward to Tuesday. Likening the emptiness of words to the devaluation of coinage but assuring her [and her sister Agnes] "I am in love with you both."
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