BIB_ID
331920
Accession number
MA 495.24
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
[1791 Dec. 11].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.8 cm
Notes
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).
Possible location and date of writing identified by Lewis and Wallace.
Possible location and date of writing identified by Lewis and Wallace.
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
Remarking very clearly that she has hurt him and referring to a piece in the newspaper [not identified] alluding to the fact that the Berrys friendship for Walpole was not disinterested; remarking that his only desire is to make Mary and Agnes a little happier in life.
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