BIB_ID
331986
Accession number
MA 495.32
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
"Thursday evening" [1793 Sept. 26].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed "To Miss Berry at Brompton near Malton, Yorkshire." Headed "Isleworth September the twenty seventh 1793" and noted "Free Orford."
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).
Probable location of writing identified by 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 (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).
Probable location of writing identified by 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
Describing his visit to Oatlands that morning, noting that the Duchess [of York] had left but mentioning other mutual acquaintances; describing the receipt of an "indifferent copy" of a portrait of Madame du Deffand, left to him in the will of the Prince de Beauvau. Continuing the letter The 27th of Sept. 1793, at night: concerning Agnes's lame mare, which Walpole predicts will suffer a relapse if she is shipped to Yorkshire; mentioning that he is concerned that he has not received more news about Besançon and therefore doubts the revolt; reporting that Cowdry [the house of Lord Montague] burned to the ground in six hours. Continuing the letter Friday morning, half-past ten: thanking her for a letter; fearing for Agnes's worsened health; remarking that the post office will think it is still their honeymoon since they are corresponding so frequently.
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