BIB_ID
331222
Accession number
MA 496.10
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1794 Oct. 1.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address), bound ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Miss Berry / at Prospect House / near Broadstairs / Kent;" above the address is "Isleworth October the second 1794."
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
Discussing the assassination attempt on George III; commenting on the continuing war waged by the French and saying "I abhor a system of liberty established by guillotines, and daggers and poisoned arrows;" adding comments on the veracity of the claims of the assassination plot against George III and saying that there are those "who say the plot is now disbelieved in town, and that nothing will be made out --no! Then I am sure the ministers have acted sillily in publishing it before they were certain of their ground."
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