BIB_ID
331539
Accession number
MA 496.34
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
"Thursday, half after one" [1795 Nov. 26].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address), bound ; 19.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Miss Agnes Berry / in North Audley Street Grosvenor Street / London;" "Isleworth" is stamped above the address.
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).
The salutation in the letter is to "My Sweetest."
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).
The salutation in the letter is to "My Sweetest."
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 for Mary's health and saying that he will "suppress my impatience and will not see her till Saturday evening."
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