BIB_ID
331999
Accession number
MA 495.36
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1793 Oct. 10.
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 eleventh 1793" and noted "Free Orford."
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).
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).
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
Regretting that he has no news but thanking them for a letter from Scarborough and saying he is glad that Agnes is well and that her mare should arrive by Saturday; relating a story about "the panic- or, blunder-master-general" [Lord Onslow], who arranged for tickets to Strawberry Hill and asked if he could bring a few extra people than the normally-allowed four, but brought seventeen guests. Continuing the letter At night: regretting that he learned no military news while dining in Richmond, but mentioning that the Duchesse de Grammont and Madame du Châtelet have been seized. Approving of her scoffing at the re-naming of the days of the week and noting that "in everything they do, is there not a layer of horror and a layer of folly?" Continuing the letter on Saturday: briefly mentioning some general military movements and listing his dining engagements.
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