BIB_ID
332007
Accession number
MA 495.40
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1793 Oct. 22.
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 twenty-third 1793" and franked "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).
Probable location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
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).
Probable location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
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
Remarking on several news reports (some conflicting) from France; noting that he will travel to [Berkeley Square] the following day to see his completed dining room; mentioning a visit and some mutual acquaintances. Continuing the letter on Wednesday, 3 o'clock, Berkeley Square: discussing his anguish at not being able to get accurate information about the Queen of France, noting that he has heard reports that she has been "tried, acquitted, and massacred by the mob" and that she "was tried on the 15th and executed on the 16th;" noting that it would be a relief for her miseries to be over.
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