BIB_ID
331111
Accession number
MA 496.8
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
"Saturd. night" 1794 Sept. 27.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p.), bound ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Identity of recipient from Lewis and Wallace.
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).
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).
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 his visit to Mrs. Damer's new house; relating news of friends; wondering when they might return; commenting on an article in the "True Briton" which discussed the possibility of Hampton Court becoming the new residence for the Prince of Wales and that with a theatre and a tennis court, "Twickenham will not want a succession of company even when the venerable Earl of Orford shall be no more;" relating, in detail, a story told to him by Lady Onslow which was told to her by Lord Ashburnham about a "ghostly" visitor to the bedchamber of the Bishop of Chichester.
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