BIB_ID
331936
Accession number
MA 495.29
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
[1793] Sept. 17.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.1 cm
Notes
Followed on p. 3 by notes clarifying points in the letter in the hand of Mary Berry.
Numbered "No. 60."
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).
Year of writing identified by Lewis and Wallace.
Numbered "No. 60."
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).
Year 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
Saying that he loves them and recalling the day of their first meeting, but noting that he is "not one of those old fools, who fancy they are in love in their dotage." Mentioning engagements with mutual acquaintances and reporting Lord Buckingham's bequests to his daughters. Reminding them that they are delicate and to protect their healths.
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