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Autograph letter : "Prospect House", to Horace Walpole, "Monday" 1794 Oct. 6.

BIB_ID
331993
Accession number
MA 496.55
Creator
Berry, Mary, 1763-1852.
Display Date
"Monday" 1794 Oct. 6.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address), bound ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed "To the Earl of Orford / Strawberry Hill / Twickenham / Midd.x."
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).
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
Expressing her frustration that he has misunderstood what sort of persons she and her sister are; asking "Can you possibly conceive me as a Bedchamber-Woman?--dawdling away my time in waiting-rooms and stuck up with people who might probably as heartily despise me as I should them;" relating news of the weather and of the mutual acquaintances she has seen during her time at Prospect House.