Autograph letter signed : "Strawberry Hill" [London], to Agnes Berry, 1794 July 31.

Record ID: 
331094
Accession number: 
MA 496.5
Author: 
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Credit: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1904.
Description: 
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 20.0 cm
Notes: 

Walpole has signed his letter " yrs / O."
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Miss Agnes Berry / to be left at the posthouse / at Cheltenham / Gloucestershire."
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).

Summary: 

Expressing his love for her and his hopes that she "mend fast;" telling her that her father and sister arrived the prior evening; giving news of friends he has seen; relating news of her kitten for whom he will continue to care until "the workmen are out of your house."

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.