BIB_ID
331080
Accession number
MA 496.4
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1794 May 27.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p.), bound ; 20.1 cm
Notes
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 salutation is to "Dear S[i]r."
The salutation is to "Dear S[i]r."
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
Consulting him on an idea he has that "all who live under our present unprecedentedly happy constitution, composed of King, Lords and Commons, should be grounded from their earliest youth in such a firm attachment to that matchless system, in such undivided ardour of patriotism for that trinitarian but one composition, that no monarchic or republican doctrines, no factious or interested views, no attachment to political leaders or dictators, may ever be able to detach them from the great principles of the constitution;" proposing that he would have "all schools, seminaries, colleges, universities, obliged to inculcate this creed into all the youth committed to their care;" proposing a structured plan of teaching for all ages; adding that "You, my dear Sr., would be infinitely more able than I am to dilate these rude hints into a valuable and practicable system. My object is to raise a spirit of enthusiasm for our constitution into our young and future countrymen."
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