BIB_ID
331922
Accession number
MA 495.25
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1791 Dec. 13.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 19.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed "To Miss Mary Berry."
Numbered "No. 59."
One passage has been crossed through, presumably by Mary Berry.
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 of writing identified by Lewis and Wallace.
Numbered "No. 59."
One passage has been crossed through, presumably by Mary Berry.
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 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
Responding to her letter concerning her distress at the newspaper article [that suggested the Berrys friendship with Walpole was not disinterested], assuring her that he will be the most miserable of men if their friendship has brought her grief. Noting that his nephew's death and his own illnesses have weakened him and that her uneasiness would finish him for good. Noting that he wants her to live in Cliveden and instructing her not to put stock in newspaper reports.
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