BIB_ID
331234
Accession number
MA 494.29
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1790 Oct. 22.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and manuscript postal marks and addressed "À Mademoiselle Mademoiselle Berry à Torino."
Location of writing identified in Wallace and Lewis.
Numbered "No. 3" [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).
Location of writing identified in Wallace and Lewis.
Numbered "No. 3" [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).
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 alarm at learning they must travel through Paris, saying he will not feel comfortable until he hears from them at Turin; noting that he spent the evening before with Mrs. D[amer ] and Mrs. B[uller] and will visit Mrs. Damer again on Thursday before she departs for Lisbon; gossiping about whether Elizabeth Gunning will be made a marchioness. Continuing the letter on Sunday 24th after dinner: discussing the Elizabeth Gunning scandal; mentioning visits to mutual acquaintances including their cousin Miss Seton; regretting that he has no news about the West Indies to share; reporting that Edmund Burke's pamphlet [Reflections on the Revolution in France] is to be printed in November. Continuing the letter on Monday 25: noting that the pictures (including a watercolor by Agnes) have all been hung in the little parlour.
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