BIB_ID
331242
Accession number
MA 496.16
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1795 Apr. 7.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p.), bound ; 19.8 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
Relating news of the arrival of the Princess at St. James's "on Sunday at three o'clock;" adding that Mr, Churchill and Lady Mary......saw the Princess show herself at a window and bow exceedingly to the people, as she has since done at St. James's, till the Prince shut the window and made excuses of her being fatigued. Everybody speaks most favourably of her face as most pleasing, though with too much rouge; she is plump, and by no means tall. The marriage is not ill tomorrow."
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