BIB_ID
331068
Accession number
MA 494.13
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1789 Aug. 13.
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 Agnes Berry to be left at the Post House at York."
Numbered "No. 10."
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 Mary or Agnes Berry.
Numbered "No. 10."
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 Mary or Agnes 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
Praising Agnes and her sister Mary; regretting that he can give no news from France, but that the explosion at Besançon was an accident and that the death of the Abbess of Montmarte was a false report; relating an anecdote about determining the authorship of a pamphlet; mentioning a story he heard concerning the King of Spain considering sending 40,000 troops to France; fearing that "the flame does seem to be spreading," noting that revolution may come next to Austrian Flanders; saying he is shocked by the caricatures in the press regarding the flight of émigrés from France; noting he has seen very little of the Pepyses and Mrs. Anderson lately; saying he has made inquiries about a house in Teddington for the Berrys.
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