BIB_ID
332006
Accession number
MA 496.59
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p.), bound ; 23.0 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 verse is undated, however, in a paragraph preceding the published text of this verse (see citation below), it is noted that in the month of December 1793 the active correspondence between the Misses Berry and Mr. Walpole had ceased providing a possible date of this writing as December 1793.
Walpole has signed this letter "O."
This verse is undated, however, in a paragraph preceding the published text of this verse (see citation below), it is noted that in the month of December 1793 the active correspondence between the Misses Berry and Mr. Walpole had ceased providing a possible date of this writing as December 1793.
Walpole has signed this letter "O."
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
Writing of his disappointment at the apparent end to his correspondence with Mary Berry.
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