BIB_ID
331983
Accession number
MA 495.31
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1793 Sept. 25.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 20 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed "To Miss Berry at Brompton near Malton, Yorkshire." Headed "Isleworth September the twenty sixth 1793" and noted "Free Orford."
Followed on p. 3 by notes in the hand of Mary Berry clarifying points in the letter.
Numbered "No. 62."
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).
Followed on p. 3 by notes in the hand of Mary Berry clarifying points in the letter.
Numbered "No. 62."
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).
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
Describing the Duchess of York's visit, remarking that it will probably end his connections with the court, recalling that they began when he was presented to the Duchess's great, great, great-grandfather George. Remarking that he has outgrown a three-year-old waistcoat, noting that when he went to put it on he feared it would be too large. Continuing the letter At night, very late: Reporting that Besançon has declared for the young King [Louis XVII, titular King].
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