BIB_ID
331077
Accession number
MA 494.16
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1789 Sept. 4.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (4 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." Redirected in an unknown hand to "Thos Caley's, Esq., Middleton near Pickering."
Numbered "No. 13;" re-numbered "No. 11."
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. 13;" re-numbered "No. 11."
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
Discussing their moving to the Teddington house, noting that Mrs. Armstrong is more likely to leave soon because of the bad weather; discussing the Berrys decision to leave York in the middle of the races; alluding to a royal scandal concerning Miss Polly Finch; discussing the theater and some actors; mentioning further gossip; approving of the Berrys intention to visit Wentworth Castle, saying that it is his favorite of all the great seats. Continuing the letter that night, noting that he has just returned from Cambridge's where he heard "many horrid stories of the violences in France," including the destruction of thirty-two chateaux in Burgundy and the gathering of 16,000 deserters outside Paris; remarking that his niece is still alive.
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