BIB_ID
331224
Accession number
MA 496.11
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
"Saturday" 1794 Oct. 4.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p.), bound ; 20.2 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).
Place of writing and identity of recipient from Lewis and Wallace.
Place of writing and identity of recipient from 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
Expressing astonishment that, in her last letter, she spoke "with approbation of a place at court! Is it possible you should like one? or can I assist such a wish? Interest I have none upon earth anywhere, nor if I had, would condescend to employ it for anyone but for you or your sister.....but if you have such a wish, it shall not fail through my neglect."
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