BIB_ID
331572
Accession number
MA 496.37
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
"Sunday" 1795 Dec. 6.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p., 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).
Place of writing from published letter.
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).
Place of writing from published letter.
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
Saying he will not be "in town before Tuesday;" saying he continues to suffer from gout and that he has not left "these two rooms since Wednesday morning last--can I, old and broken and full of cracks as I am, expect that pain will not enter into some of them--yes; entirely free I never am, and as I hate to trouble others with complaints of natural infirmities and perceive how sensibly I decay, I like to be much alone, and care not how few I see, except the very, very few that I really love."
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