BIB_ID
331940
Accession number
MA 496.51
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1789 Dec.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p.), bound ; 23.0 cm
Notes
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).
This copy, in an unknown hand, indicates below the date, that it is "Lines inscribed by Mr. Walpole in a copy of his Catalogue of Strawberry Hill given to M & A Berry long before it was published."
This copy, in an unknown hand, indicates below the date, that it is "Lines inscribed by Mr. Walpole in a copy of his Catalogue of Strawberry Hill given to M & A Berry long before it was published."
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
Being an affectionate inscription to Agnes and Mary Berry of his "description of his Villa at Strawberry Hill;" adding that it comes "from a heart overflowing with / Admiration, Esteem and Friendship / hoping, / that long after he shall be no more, / It may, while amusing them, / recall some kind thoughts / of a most devoted / and affectionate humble Servant."
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