BIB_ID
331067
Accession number
MA 496.1
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
"Thursday evening" 1794 Apr. [17].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address), bound ; 20.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "Miss Berry / at Cliveden / near / Twickenham."
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 494 (Letter from Walpole to the Misses Berry, 1789-1791); MA 495 (Letters from Walpole to the Misses Berry, 1791-1793) and MA 497 (Letters to various persons and miscellaneous writings).
The day of writing is from the published letter; Walpole has dated the letter on page 1 as "Thursday evening / April 16" however, in 1794, Thursday was April 17.
Walpole's discussion of the two volumes by Mrs. Piozzi refers to her "British Synonymy; or an Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in Familiar Conversation."
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 494 (Letter from Walpole to the Misses Berry, 1789-1791); MA 495 (Letters from Walpole to the Misses Berry, 1791-1793) and MA 497 (Letters to various persons and miscellaneous writings).
The day of writing is from the published letter; Walpole has dated the letter on page 1 as "Thursday evening / April 16" however, in 1794, Thursday was April 17.
Walpole's discussion of the two volumes by Mrs. Piozzi refers to her "British Synonymy; or an Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in Familiar Conversation."
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
Referring to his fourteen week confinement for gout; discussing the situation on Martinico (Martinique); discussing his reading of "both volumes of Mrs. Piozzi;" discussing the publication of some "epistles in rhyme" by [John] Courtney "in which he has honoured me with a dozen lines (and which are really some of the best in the whole set) in ridicule of my writings."
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