BIB_ID
331011
Accession number
MA 494.7
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1789 June 30.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 19.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed "To Miss Mary Berry, to be left at the Post House, York." Redirected in an unknown hand: "at Thos Cayley's Esq., at Middleton near Pickering."
Numbered "No. 7."
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).
Several passages have been crossed through, presumably by Mary Berry.
Numbered "No. 7."
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).
Several passages have been crossed through, presumably by Mary Berry.
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 over-reacting at not receiving a letter from them earlier. Reporting that he sustained a bad fall at the opera house and would have broken a rib if he had not fallen "on the cavity whence my two ribs were removed, that are gone to Yorkshire." Encouraging her to finish the Arabian Nights and discussing the collection; remarking that if she could get through two octavos of Dame Piozzi, she can certainly get through the Arabian Nights. Responding to her critique of King's College Chapel. Saying he is delighted that his next letter will come from "Wife the Second" and discussing his ardent love for both Mary and Agnes. Saying that he loves them equally and that all the world admires them. Mentioning some mutual acquaintances.
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