BIB_ID
331730
Accession number
MA 495.8
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1791 July 20.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
Address panel and all of the letter except for the final paragraph are in the hand of Walpole's secretary and printer Thomas Kirgate.
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed "À Mademoiselle Mademoiselle Berry à la poste restante à Florence, Italie."
Numbered "No. 43" [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).
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed "À Mademoiselle Mademoiselle Berry à la poste restante à Florence, Italie."
Numbered "No. 43" [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
Mentioning that he is much better but that he was accidentally administered a draught for vomiting instead of something for his gout; reassuring her that he is much better and listing several people that came to call that day. Asking her to thank her father for a letter, saying he is pleased by the good report of her nose; discussing the Birmingham riots and enclosing a printed account from the previous day's paper. Continuing the letter (in his own hand) on Thursday evening: thanking her for a letter containing reports of the fêtes, the conflagration of a ballroom, and their first news of the flight of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI.
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