BIB_ID
331538
Accession number
MA 494.55
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1791 Apr. 3.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed "À Mademoiselle Mademoiselle Berry à lat poste restante à Florence, Italie."
Numbered "No. 38" and "No. 27" [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. 38" and "No. 27" [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
Expressing extreme alarm at hearing of her fall, and asking for a further report; noting that several mutual acquaintances, including Mrs. Lockhart and the Pepyses, were also alarmed at his report. Referencing the Russian-Turkish war and the theatre, mentioning Kemble and Mrs. Siddons; mentioning mutual acquaintances including Mrs. Damer. Continuing the letter from B[erkely] Square on Monday after dinner: Reporting that Mirabeau is dead and that Dr. Price is dying; stating "Nobody is more devoted to liberty than I am. It is therefore that I abhor the National Assembly, whose outrageous violence has given, I fear, a lasting wound to the cause;" mentioning the response of "one Paine from America" to Burke, noting that "his style is so coarse, that you would think he means to degrade the language as much as the government. Continuing the letter on Monday night: wishing for a letter from her and reporting that Lord Strathaven was married to Miss Cope.
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