BIB_ID
332001
Accession number
MA 496.58
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1783 Nov.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p.), bound ; 16.0 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).
This extract is from a letter written by Walpole to the Rev. William Mason on November 8, 1783. Mary Berry has added a "Note" to this extract, on page 4 and printed her Note above the text of the extract and beneath the Epitaph in question in "The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford" cited below. Miss Berry's note defends Walpole's intent.
This extract is from a letter written by Walpole to the Rev. William Mason on November 8, 1783. Mary Berry has added a "Note" to this extract, on page 4 and printed her Note above the text of the extract and beneath the Epitaph in question in "The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford" cited below. Miss Berry's note defends Walpole's intent.
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
Defending lines of verse he wrote in an "Epitaph on Two Piping-Bullfinches of Lady Ossory's buried under a Rose-bush in her Garden."
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