BIB_ID
331388
Accession number
MA 494.41
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1791 Jan. 9.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed "À Mademoiselle Mademoiselle Berry à la poste restante à Pisa, Italie."
Letter is partially in the hand of Thomas Kirgate, Walpole's secretary and printer.
Numbered "No. 14" [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).
Letter is partially in the hand of Thomas Kirgate, Walpole's secretary and printer.
Numbered "No. 14" [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
Regretting that an attack of gout and rheumatism makes it impossible for him to write his own letter. Saying he is glad that they like Pisa, and mentioning mutual acquaintances. Continuing the letter on Monday 10th: discussing his rheumatism, hoping to be recovered by the following week.
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