BIB_ID
331590
Accession number
MA 496.40
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1796 June 25.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 19.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Miss Berry / at Cliveden / near Twickenham;" above the address Walpole has written "London June the twenty fifth 1796."
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 concern that she is still not well; saying he will soon return to Strawberry Hill; apologizing for his poor handwriting.
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