BIB_ID
331103
Accession number
MA 496.7
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
"Wednesday" 1794 Sept. 24.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 19.8 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).
Walpole indicates the letter was written "near one" on September 24th; place of writing and identity of recipient Lewis and Wallace.
Walpole indicates the letter was written "near one" on September 24th; place of writing and identity of recipient Lewis and Wallace.
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
Relating news of bad weather, the bad news in the newspaper "of retreats of our army, of the capture of our Mediterranean fleet by the French, and what I think as bad as anything for Europe, of the King of Prussia having been forced to raise the siege of Warsaw;" saying he is pleased they are liking their new home and saying how much he relied on Canterbury [Cathedral] for certain design elements at Strawberry Hill.
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