BIB_ID
331373
Accession number
MA 496.22
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1795 Sept. 1-2.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address), bound ; 19.9 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 September the third 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 his recent engagements and news of mutual friends; asking her not to write such long letters and adding "Don't measure your letters by mine; I have no other occupation that I like a quarter so well as conversing with you: I wish to amuse your idle moments, but not to misemploy them--and is it fit that your youth should be confined to the entertainment of your great-grandfather? Let me babble, but don't reply."
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