BIB_ID
331518
Accession number
MA 496.29
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
"Friday night" 1795 Oct. [i.e., Nov.] 6.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 19.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Miss Berry / at Lady Ailesbury's / at Parkplace / near / Henley;" above the address Walpole has written "Isleworth November the seventh 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).
Walpole dated page 1 of the letter "Friday night / 9 o'clock Oct. 6, 1795" but he has written "November the seventh 1795" on the address panel and the postmark is November 7, 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).
Walpole dated page 1 of the letter "Friday night / 9 o'clock Oct. 6, 1795" but he has written "November the seventh 1795" on the address panel and the postmark is November 7, 1795.
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 the damage to his property from a storm early that morning.
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