BIB_ID
331844
Accession number
MA 495.16
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1791 Sept. 11.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 20.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed "À Mademoiselle Mademoiselle Berry à la poste restante à Basle en Suisse."
Numbered "No. 53" and "No. 52" [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.
Numbered "No. 53" and "No. 52" [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
Concerning his anxiety about their upcoming return journey to England; referencing the "folly and confusion" in France; mentioning a slight scandal involving Lord Blandford's upcoming marriage; remarking on the good weather and mentioning several mutual acquaintances and his engagements; mentioning that Lord Cornwallis has taken Bangalore.
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