BIB_ID
331833
Accession number
MA 495.13
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1791 Aug. 17.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 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."
Followed, on the address panel, by notes clarifying points in the letter in the hand of Mary Berry.
Numbered "No. 51" and "No. 48" [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).
Some passages have been crossed through, presumably by Mary Berry.
Followed, on the address panel, by notes clarifying points in the letter in the hand of Mary Berry.
Numbered "No. 51" and "No. 48" [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).
Some passages have been crossed through, presumably by Mary Berry.
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 anxiety over her health and their travel plans, noting that even in Switzerland there is "a great spirit of democracy or demonocracy." Continuing the letter on Wednesday night: thanking her for assurances of her health, noting that he is finally convinced that she is well; noting that he has no news and remarking very generally on international affairs; mentioning mutual acquaintances and engagements; resolving to fill his paper and including some anonymous lines on Mrs. Hart, "Attitudes -- A Sketch" (16 lines), noting that the poem is pretty enough but that Darwin has destroyed Walpole's ability to admire any other poetry. Advising the use of St. James's Powder.
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