BIB_ID
331368
Accession number
MA 496.20
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1795 Aug. 25.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 20.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Miss Berry / to be left at the Post Office / at / Cheltenham;" above the address Walpole has written "Isleworth august the twenty fifth 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).
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 what he has been doing while they are away and saying that he does not "grow at all reconciled to your absence; pis-allers are the worst allers in the world, and when the coach comes to the door at eight o'clock and is not to carry me to Cliveden, I grow peevish..."
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