BIB_ID
332004
Accession number
MA 495.39
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1793 Oct. 19.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 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 nineteenth 1793" and franked "Free Orford."
Followed by notes on p.23 clarifying points in the letter, in the hand of Mary Berry.
Numbered "No. 66."
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.
Followed by notes on p.23 clarifying points in the letter, in the hand of Mary Berry.
Numbered "No. 66."
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
Responding to her inquiry about his health that he has been affected with the "common disorder of the season in my bowels," noting that it affects him more because he is already weak, but remarking that he knew it would be over quickly and expressing mild annoyance that Mrs. Damer reported his illness to them; mentioning several mutual acquaintances and engagements.
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