BIB_ID
331587
Accession number
MA 496.39
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1796 June 2.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Miss Berry / at Cliveden / near / Twickenham."
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
Reminding her to return tomorrow in order to attend an exhibition [at the Royal Academy]; discussing the continuing controversy surrounding the Princess of Wales; relating news of his visit from the Duchess of Richmond; reporting that the "Dutch fleet has been found at the Canaries, nine ships but in a most deplorable condition and the sailors all ill."
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