BIB_ID
331248
Accession number
MA 494.33
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1790 Nov. 18.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (4 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. Par Paris." Redirected in an unknown hand "à Pisa."
Numbered "No. 23" and "No. 8" [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. 23" and "No. 8" [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 from Turin; regretting that they received none of his letters there, noting that he did not know he needed to add "Par Paris" to the direction; regretting that they have been subjected to bad inns during their journey and hoping that Florence is restful, advising them to go to Pisa if it is too cold in Florence. Saying he is glad that they met the Bishop of Arras; hoping that his previous letters reach them; sending regards from the Duchess of Gloucester; complaining that Miss Foldson (later Mrs. Ann Mee) has not sent him [the portraits of Mary and Agnes Berry]; intending to stay at Strawberry Hill until the weather worsens; referencing again unrest on the Continent and saying how relieved he is that they are alright.
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