BIB_ID
331988
Accession number
MA 496.54
Creator
Berry, Mary, 1763-1852.
Display Date
"Friday night" [1791 Dec. 9].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p.), bound ; 18.8 cm
Notes
Miss Berry has written at the top of page 1, and then it has been subsequently crossed through, "The note was in the following words verbatim."
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 has been dated "Friday night 12 / October", however, Lewis and Wallace date the letter to "?Friday night, 12 o'clock, 9 December 1791;" the word October has been crossed through and the word December has been written in pencil under it.
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 has been dated "Friday night 12 / October", however, Lewis and Wallace date the letter to "?Friday night, 12 o'clock, 9 December 1791;" the word October has been crossed through and the word December has been written in pencil under it.
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
Referring to a newspaper article that implied or stated that her friendship and that of her sister, Agnes, with Walpole was not a disinterested one; expressing her hurt at being publicly maligned in such a way.
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