BIB_ID
331221
Accession number
MA 494.26
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1790 Oct. 10.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed "À Mademoiselle Mademoiselle Berry à la poste restante à Lyon, France."
Location of writing identified by
Numbered "No. 18" and "No. 1" [of the series of letters addressed to the Berrys abroad].
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).
With a note clarifying a point in the letter in the hand of Mary Berry.
Location of writing identified by
Numbered "No. 18" and "No. 1" [of the series of letters addressed to the Berrys abroad].
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).
With a note clarifying a point in the letter in the hand of 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
Discussing his anxiety at their travelling to the continent and his grief at their departure, noting "In happy days I smiled and called you my dear wives -- now I can only think on you as darling children of whom I am bereaved!" Discussing his intention to hang watercolors by Agnes in the Little Parlour. Apologizing for writing about nothing but himself and the Berrys; discussing their friendship, noting that their loss weighs heavily on him , and hoping that their constitutions are much improved by a winter in Italy.
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