BIB_ID
330985
Accession number
MA 494.4
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1789 Apr. 14.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed "To Miss Berry, Somerset Street."
Location of writing identified by Lewis and Wallace as [Berkeley Square].
Numbered "No. 4."
Opening is addressed to "Suavissima Maria."
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).
Location of writing identified by Lewis and Wallace as [Berkeley Square].
Numbered "No. 4."
Opening is addressed to "Suavissima Maria."
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
Apologizing for not answering her note the night before, remarking that he dined out and went to the theater; hoping that her father leases a house in Twickenham, since "Hampton Court is half way to Swisserland;" accepting an invitation for "this day sennight;" playfully recalling and satirizing a fight that broke out during the middle of the final act of the play the night before.
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