BIB_ID
331013
Accession number
MA 494.8
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1789 July 9.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (4 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. 8."
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).
Numbered "No. 8."
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
Thanking her for a letter; regretting to hear that she is unwell just as he has recovered from gout and his fall; discussing the situation in France, remarking "no man is more devoted to liberty than I am -- yet blood is a terrible price to pay for it!" Noting that he has been reading Voltaire's correspondence; mentioning their dog Tonton; referencing the terrible rains; promising to try to get more news for her; looking forward [to their return in ] September.
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