BIB_ID
331570
Accession number
MA 494.57
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1791 Apr. 15.
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. 39" and "No. 29" [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. 39" and "No. 29" [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
Concerning her recovery from her fall and the mending of her nose; remarking that O'hara has been made colonel of a better regiment. Continuing the letter from Strawberry, Sunday night past eleven: describing the glorious spring, noting that England has not seen one better since it was fifteen years old; mentioning mutual acquaintances he has just seen in Richmond; noting he can give no certain news about the possible war with Russia. Continuing the letter at Berkeley Square, Monday 18th: thanking her for a letter with a positive account of her recovery; responding that his own health is good; hoping that the Berrys will return to Cliveden one summer; remarking on the influx of people to the city and instructing her not to worry about her short letters. Continued at eleven at night: describing a tiresome evening at Mrs. Buller's.
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