BIB_ID
331251
Accession number
MA 496.18
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1795 Aug. 22.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 19.7 cm
Notes
Identity of recipient from Lewis and Wallace.
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).
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).
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 an "outrageous storm of thunder;" discussing speculation on who he will name as his principal heir in his will; relating news of his sighting of the Kingston Fencibles as they passed by on a barge on the river.
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