BIB_ID
331982
Accession number
MA 496.53
Creator
Berry, Mary, 1763-1852.
Display Date
"Sunday evening" [1789 Apr. 12].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address), bound ; 18.6 cm
Notes
Address panel addressed to "The Hon'ble / Horace 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).
Place and date of writing from Lewis and Wallace.
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 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 his help in their search for a house and telling him that she is sure that her father will find a place that will be a "short distance from Strawberry Hill;" discussing her schedule for the coming week and suggesting a time for them to meet again; asking, in a postscript, if he would tell her where Mrs. Damer lives.
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