BIB_ID
330974
Accession number
MA 494.2
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1789 Mar. 20.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Followed by notes in the hand of Mary Berry clarifying points in the letter regarding Madame de la Motte's memoirs and the illumination.
Numbered "No. 2."
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).
Recipients identified by Lewis and Wallace.
The illumination here "threatened" did not take place. It would have been the second illumination, following one on 10 March, in honor of George III's recovery from his second attack of "insanity," but the second illumination did not take place until 24 April.
Written from Berkeley Square.
Numbered "No. 2."
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).
Recipients identified by Lewis and Wallace.
The illumination here "threatened" did not take place. It would have been the second illumination, following one on 10 March, in honor of George III's recovery from his second attack of "insanity," but the second illumination did not take place until 24 April.
Written from Berkeley Square.
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
Mentioning that he has just received Mrs. Damer's copy of the memoirs of Madame de la Motte to lend to them; asking if they are available Friday next for an engagement with Lady Ailesbury, noting that he is busy until then except for on Thursday, when "if there is another illumination, as is threatened, we should neither get thither nor thence."
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