BIB_ID
331096
Accession number
MA 494.19
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1790 July 2.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed "To Miss Berry to be left at the Post Office at Lymington."
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).
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).
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 his neighborhood is dull and that he has no news to send; noting at all news has been centered on the elections, about which he does not care. Saying he is glad that they stayed at Park Place long enough "to see all its beauties." Regretting that he cannot give her father Mr. Berry news about the Spanish war and briefly discussing the situation in France, noting it is "a pretty experiment to throw society with all its improved vices and desires into a state of nature." Continuing the letter later in the day, remarking that he has since called on Madame de Boufflers and learned that Monsieur d'Olan was taken out of his sick bed to be hanged by the mob and that the Prime Minister of Spain has been stabbed by a Frenchman.
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