BIB_ID
331403
Accession number
MA 494.45
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1791 Feb. 4.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed "À Mademoiselle Mademoiselle Berry."
Numbered "No. 28" and "No. 18" [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).
Numbered "No. 28" and "No. 18" [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 the inferences in her last letter that indicate they will not be returning to England in the fall as planned; remarking that Florence and Pisa and the company there can be but poor substitutes to the best company of "so vast a capital as London," and wondering if they have taken an aversion to England; assuring her that he supports any decisions they make and assuring her that her happiness is more important than their returning. Continuing the letter on Monday 7th: complaining about the return of the gout; reporting that a storm knocked down Mrs. Damer's chimney but that none of her sculptures were destroyed; mentioning that Lady Mary St. John died giving birth and that the chief topic of local conversation concerns two rival opera houses.
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