BIB_ID
331997
Accession number
MA 496.56
Display Date
1797.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p.), bound ; 9.0 cm
Notes
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
A note in Latin, in an unknown hand, as follows " Convivis præbebit aquam / Hoc Vasculum Amicitiæ ergo / JACOBO EDWARDS / D.D. / R.M. et A. BERRY / MDCCXCVII."
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