Autograph letter signed : "Somerset St.", to Horace Walpole, "Wednesday night" [1789 Feb. 4].

Record ID: 
331938
Accession number: 
MA 496.50
Author: 
Berry, Mary, 1763-1852.
Credit: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1904.
Description: 
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 18.8 cm
Notes: 

Date of writing from Lewis and Wallace.
Address panel addressed to "The Hon'ble / Horace Walpole / Berkeley Square."
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).

Summary: 

Sending him a portrait of Cardinal de Bernis as thanks for his company the previous evening "and the many pleasant hours we have passed in your society."

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.