BIB_ID
331244
Accession number
MA 494.32
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1790 Nov. 13.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed "À Mademoiselle Mademoiselle Berry à la poste restante à Florence, Italie."
Numbered "No. 22" and "No. 7" [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).
Numbered "No. 22" and "No. 7" [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
Thanking her for a letter and relating his anxiety at reading of their encounter with revolutionaries in Burgoin; instructing her to burn all of his letters, fearing that they might be misinterpreted; telling her not to fatigue herself with writing him long letters, and expressing relief that they are already at Chamberry; remarking that he will send word of their safe arrival to Miss Seton and Mrs. Damer. Continuing the letter from Berkeley Square on Tuesday 15th: noting that he has passed a quiet time in town and that he has no news.
Catalog link
Department