BIB_ID
331934
Accession number
MA 496.48
Creator
Berry, Mary, 1763-1852.
Display Date
"Saturday morning" [1788 Nov. 1].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address), bound ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed "To the Hon'ble / Horace Walpole / at Strawberry Hill."
Lewis and Wallace indicate that the date of writing was added by Walpole.
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).
Lewis and Wallace indicate that the date of writing was added by Walpole.
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).
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
In response to verses sent to her by Walpole, she is enclosing a verse to him; adding that "Rhyming seems to be catching, but I fear I have got the disorder of a bad sort;" the verse is titled "To the Honourable Horace Walpole" and is a verse of 30 lines.
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