BIB_ID
331735
Accession number
MA 495.11
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1791 Aug. 8.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed "À Mademoiselle Mademoiselle Berry à la poste restante à Florence, Italie."
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Numbered "No. 46" [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).
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Numbered "No. 46" [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
Concerning his anxiety about her illness and fearing for her travels to England. Listing his recent engagements; discussing mutual acquaintances; mentioning the new fashion of wearing one's hair "cropped" and without powder.
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