BIB_ID
331540
Accession number
MA 496.35
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1795 Dec. 1.
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 Berry / in North Audley Street / Grosvenor Square / London;" "Isleworth" has been 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).
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
Expressing his happiness that she is free from pain but worrying that she may be "subject to rheumatism;" suggesting the name of someone he hopes she will see and urging her to seek help "while you are young, and before they fix into your constitution."
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