BIB_ID
331532
Accession number
MA 496.32
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
"Wedn" 1795 Nov. 23 [25].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address), bound ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Miss Berry / in North Audley Street / Grosvenor Square / London."
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 has dated this letter "Wedn. Nov. 23, 95", however Wednesday was the 25th; the postmark is November 26th; Walpole has not indicated the place of writing.
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 has dated this letter "Wedn. Nov. 23, 95", however Wednesday was the 25th; the postmark is November 26th; Walpole has not indicated the place of writing.
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
Expressing concern that she is not feeling well.
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