Letter and address panel written in the hand of Thomas Kirgate, Walpole's printer and secretary.
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Miss Berry / at Cliveden / near / Twickenham."
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 (Letter from Walpole to the Misses Berry, 1789-1791); MA 495 (Letters from Walpole to the Misses Berry, 1791-1793) and MA 497 (Letters to various persons and miscellaneous writings).
Expressing concern over her health; relating news of a visit by [Richard] Cosway who "told us that the late Duke of Orleans had told him that his object was to make his son the Duke de Chartres king, and he said that Monsieur de Vergennes the day after signing the commercial treaty with us, had said to him (still to him, Cosway) that he (Vergennes) must have been drunk when he signed a treaty so favourable to England--such blabs were the French!"