BIB_ID
331084
Accession number
MA 494.17
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1789 Sept. 18.
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. 14."
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. 14."
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
Regretting that her grandmother is unwilling to part with her; mentioning that he is fearful of haggling with the landlord of their Teddington house; lamenting the death of his niece Lady Dysart and enclosing an epitaph he wrote for her. Reporting that he has been confined to his house following a bad fall the previous week, but is recovering. Noting that he will go to Park Place on Monday, but saying he will return in time to ready the house for their arrival. Looking forward to seeing her.
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