BIB_ID
331941
Accession number
MA 496.52
Creator
Berry, Mary, 1763-1852.
Display Date
"Saturday afternoon" [1789 Apr. 18].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 19.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to "The Hon'ble / Horace Walpole."
Lewis and Wallace, in an introductory note to the letter, indicate that the "tickets to the trial" is "presumably a reference to the trial of Warren Hastings."
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).
Place of writing and date of writing from Lewis and Wallace.
Lewis and Wallace, in an introductory note to the letter, indicate that the "tickets to the trial" is "presumably a reference to the trial of Warren Hastings."
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).
Place of writing and date of writing from 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
Thanking him for "tickets to the trial."
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