BIB_ID
331076
Accession number
MA 496.3
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
"May-day"1794 May 1.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 20.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Miss Berry / in North Audley Street / London."
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).
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).
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
Relating news of the recent victory of the English troops over the French; saying that he "shall be glad to hear what you have learnt of Mr. Gibbon's MSS;" hoping she will call on him before she goes to the opera on Saturday evening.
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