BIB_ID
331924
Accession number
MA 495.26
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
[1791 Dec.].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 11.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed "To Miss 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 and date of writing identified by Lewis and Wallace.
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.
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
Expressing anxiety to know how they are; dreading that his good intention [making over Cliveden to Mary and Agnes] has awaited them; remarking that they have made a great sacrifice in allowing him to do this and only wishing that he could do more.
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