BIB_ID
331991
Accession number
MA 495.33
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1793 Sept. 29.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20 cm
Notes
Followed on p. 3 by notes clarifying points in the letter in the hand of Mary Berry.
Numbered "No. 63."
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.
With some passages crossed through, presumably by Mary Berry.
Numbered "No. 63."
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.
With some passages crossed through, presumably by Mary Berry.
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
Wondering why he has not received a letter from them as expected, fearing that Agnes has taken ill on the road; detailing his recent engagements with mutual acquaintances. Continuing the letter on Monday night: reporting that her servant James brought her letter that evening. Continuing the letter on Tuesday morning, 10 o'clock, October 1: hoping that the country will cure Agnes's cold; asking only for news of themselves and regretting that he has not received any news yet that day to share. Signing the letter "Your devoted, Le survivant de M. le Maréchal de Beauvau - His principality I outlived four years ago." With a postscript concerning sending Agnes's lame mare to Yorkshire.
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