BIB_ID
331595
Accession number
MA 496.42
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1796 July 26.
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 the Duke of Richmond's / at Goodwood / Sussex;" above the address Walpole has written "London July the twenty eighth 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).
This letter was started on July 26th at Strawberry Hill and completed the following evening at Berkeley Square; the letter is postmarked on the 28th.
Two lines on page 2 have been crossed through with a very black ink and it is not possible to decipher them; they appear to be two lines of verse.
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).
This letter was started on July 26th at Strawberry Hill and completed the following evening at Berkeley Square; the letter is postmarked on the 28th.
Two lines on page 2 have been crossed through with a very black ink and it is not possible to decipher them; they appear to be two lines of verse.
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
Relating news of his visitors and their mutual acquaintances; writing of his own health and saying "I find that my memory fails in a very novel manner --I moult many of my letters, my words look like Hebrew without points. I do not recover my walking at all: in short, I advance to what I have foretold, that I should have nothing but my inside left, and then I shall be but an odd figure."
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