BIB_ID
331245
Accession number
MA 496.17
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1795 [Aug. 18].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address), bound ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Miss Berry / to be left at the posthouse / at / Cheltenham;" above the address Walpole has written "Isleworth august the twentieth 1795."
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).
Walpole began this letter on August 18th, continued it on Wednesday evening, August 19th and again "Thursday, one o'clock;" the postmark is August 20th.
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).
Walpole began this letter on August 18th, continued it on Wednesday evening, August 19th and again "Thursday, one o'clock;" the postmark is August 20th.
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
Mentioning a "paragraph in the newspaper" by a neighbor, Mr. [John] Walter [editor of The Times]; giving news of visits from friends.
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