BIB_ID
331633
Accession number
MA 495.4
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1791 June 28.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed "À Mademoiselle Mademoiselle Berry à la poste restante à Florence, Italie."
Numbered "No. 39" [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 494 (Letters from Walpole to the Misses Berry, 1789-1791); 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).
Numbered "No. 39" [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 494 (Letters from Walpole to the Misses Berry, 1789-1791); 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).
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
Suggesting she not visit hospitals, both because of the risk of contagion and because of her delicate nature; remarking on the capture of the French king and queen along with their children, regretting that they took flight and fearing for their return. Continuing the letter on Wednesday 29th: regretting that he has no more news about the French royals and discussing a probably forged pamphlet purporting to be Burke's "Letter ... to a member of the National Assembly" that she was recently shown. Continuing the letter late at night: reporting that he has heard Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were returned to Paris and separated, noting that she will already have heard this, but "of what can one talk else?" Mentioning the theater and mutual acquaintances; looking forward to her return but cautioning her not to "set a foot amongst the Basillissophagi!"
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