BIB_ID
331996
Accession number
MA 495.35
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1793 Oct. 6.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 20 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed "To Miss Berry at Brompton near Malton, Yorkshire." Headed "Isleworth October the eighth 1793" and noted "Free Orford."
Marked "No. 64."
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).
Some passages have been crossed through, presumably by Mary Berry.
Marked "No. 64."
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).
Some passages have been 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
Concerning Agnes's recovered health and their travels; remarking on the Grand Alliance [the coalition of Austria, Prussia and Great Britain against France] and regretting that he has no news to send; jokingly telling her that she may contradict any reports she hears of Walpole being appointed aide-de-camp to the Duke of Yorkshire. Continuing the letter Monday night 7th: remarking that he has no international news to share even though he saw the Secretary of War and the "panic-master-general" in Richmond that evening; sharing some news about mutual acquaintances. Continuing the letter on Tuesday noon: noting that nothing is reported in the papers that day but skirmishes and "distressed letters to the Convention."
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