BIB_ID
331846
Accession number
MA 495.17
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1791 Sept. 16.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed "À Mademoiselle Mademoiselle Berry à la poste restante à Basle en Suisse."
Numbered "No. 54" and "No. 53" [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).
Several passages have been crossed through, presumably by Mary Berry.
Numbered "No. 54" and "No. 53" [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).
Several 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
Discussing the fine weather; mentioning several acquaintances who came to dine and giving news about other acquaintances; mentioning plans for a jubilee celebrating James Thomson. Continuing the letter on Sunday noon: thanking her for a letter in which she reproves his jealousies and suspicion of delaying their return, remarking that he only wants to see them ensconced at Cliveden before he is dead; expressing extreme alarm at her hint that they may travel through France and begging them to stay rather than put themselves in harm's way. Continuing the letter from Berkeley Square, Monday night, 19th: expressing anxiety about their travels. Continuing the letter on Tuesday: Reporting that on Louis XVI's acceptance of the constitution a general amnesty has been published, noting that it may now be safer to travel through France, but fearing for their safety.
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