BIB_ID
331501
Accession number
MA 494.50
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1791 Mar. 5.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed "À Mademoiselle Mademoiselle Berry à lat poste restante à Florence, Italie." Redirected in an unknown hand to "Pisa."
Numbered "No. 33" and "No. 22" [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).
Some passages have been crossed through, presumably by Mary Berry.
Numbered "No. 33" and "No. 22" [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).
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
Discussing how it is possible to live in a vast capital without knowing all of the city, remarking that he had never heard of the Albion mills (situated at the far end of Black-friars Bridge), which recently burnt down. Remarking that he hates scandal, but alluding to a scandal concerning two sisters (the Duchess of Devonshire and Lady Duncannon) visiting the moneylenders (later reported in the papers as a false rumour); mentioning that Hannah More has recently published a book called An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World; reporting that Lady Cecilia is afflicted with the gout; mentioning an outing to Sir Joseph Banks's, where the Prince of Wales bought a tiny automaton for £500. Continuing the letter on Monday evening the 7th: mentioning that Lady Mary Palk died in childbirth; remarking that the Mesdames (Marie-Adélaïde and Victoire-Louise-Marie-Thérèse) made it safely out of France, but referencing unrest there; mentioning other gossip. Continuing the letter on Tuesday morning: thanking her for a letter in which she talks of her life at Pisa.
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