BIB_ID
331227
Accession number
MA 496.12
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
"Tuesday" 1794 Oct. 7.
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
Expressing his relief and happiness that she was not interested in being nominated for a position at court [in the household of Caroline Princess of Wales]; discussing, at length, his opinion on the unsuitability of a position at court for "respectable women" and saying that it would be a "blow to my dream of happiness, should you be attached to a court--for though you probably would not desert Cliveden entirely, how distracted would your time be!" commenting on the efforts of the Jacobins in France.
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