BIB_ID
331371
Accession number
MA 494.38
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1790 Dec. 20.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed "À Mademoiselle Mademoiselle Berry à la poste restante à Florence, Italie." Redirected in an unknown hand to "Pisa."
Numbered "No. 25."
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).
Some passages have been crossed through, presumably by Mary Berry.
Numbered "No. 25."
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).
Some passages have been crossed through, presumably by Mary Berry.
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
Duplicating a letter to be sent in Lord Hervey's packet the following day (MA 494.37) in order to contradict his report of the lost packet, noting that it did not sink and that he received via a Flemish mail two letters from her; worrying about his lost letters that were directed to Florence. Saying that her letters are too long, but thanking her for the detailed correspondence, and asking after their healths. Remarking that Mr. Burke's book [Reflections on the Revolution in France] is "one of the finest compositions in print," praising the work and disparaging negative reactions to it. With a postscript saying he is glad they did not acquire a copy of Otranto printed in Pisa, as it is full of errors.
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