BIB_ID
331108
Accession number
MA 494.23
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1790 July 23.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed "To Miss Berry to be left at the Post Office at Lymington, Hants."
Numbered "No. 17."
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. 17."
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
Describing his brief trip to Lee to see Mr. Barrett; describing and praising his house and noting that the journey was also delightful; giving an account of the [Fête de la Fédération]. Thanking her for a letter in which she says they will reconsider their journey to the Continent.
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