BIB_ID
331072
Accession number
MA 494.15
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1789 Aug. 27.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed "To Miss Mary Berry to be left at the Post House at York."
Numbered "No. 10;" re-numbered "No. 12."
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. 10;" re-numbered "No. 12."
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
Concerning letting the house at Teddington; saying that his niece [Lady Dysart] is growing worse and worse; mentioning his upcoming engagements and mutual acquaintances; approving of the Berrys intent to visit the sea and mentioning again the circumstances of Mrs. Armstrong leaving the house at Teddington; regretting that he has no news "French or homebred" to pass along. continuing the letter on Friday: saying that he has met with the landlord of the Teddington house and discussing the terms of lease, and inviting them to stay at their "conjugal castle" [Strawberry Hill] until the Teddington house is ready, if they choose to return before Mrs. Armstrong vacates. Continuing the letter from Berkeley Square on Saturday: discussing the fine weather, supposing that "it is some fugitive heat that has escaped from the troubles on the Continent."
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