BIB_ID
331536
Accession number
MA 496.33
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1795 Nov. 24
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2p., 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).
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).
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 very unflattering terms, a woman he saw at a party the previous evening; commenting on the conquest of the Cape of Good Hope; saying that Mr. Coxe will visit him to read "some more chapters of my father's life to me--I am exceedingly pleased at its being undertaken by so very able a hand--but I shall wish it not to be published till I am gone."
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