BIB_ID
331044
Accession number
MA 494.12
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1789 Aug. 6.
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 at York." Redirected in an unknown hand to "Weldrake."
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).
Some passages have been crossed through, presumably by Mary Berry.
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).
Some 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
Lamenting that she thinks him a bad correspondent, citing his eight letters from the past forty days and remarking that he ceased writing only to give her a chance to respond. Regretting that the Berrys will not return until the end of September, instead of the beginning of the month as previously planned; discussing visits from mutual acquaintances and noting that he has no news from France, except that Necker has arrived in Paris. Discussing the contents of the will of General Fitzwilliam. Mentioning the weather and the search for a house for the Berrys in Twickenham.
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