BIB_ID
331421
Accession number
MA 494.47
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1791 Feb. 13.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed "À Mademoiselle Mlle Agnes Berry."
Location of writing identified by Lewis and Wallace.
Numbered "No. 30" and "No. 19, 2nd part" [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).
Location of writing identified by Lewis and Wallace.
Numbered "No. 30" and "No. 19, 2nd part" [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
Describing in detail the "Gunninghiad" [the Elizabeth Gunning scandal].
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