BIB_ID
332010
Accession number
MA 495.41
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1793 Oct. 24.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed "To Miss Berry at Brompton near Malton, Yorkshire." Headed "Isleworth October the twenty-fourth 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).
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
Remarking on the "horrible tragedy of the Queen of France," but noting that he has learned no new particulars and that "now the protracted martyrdom is completed, I shall be curious to learn of nothing of that bloody and atrocious nation but its punishment." Reporting that Marshall Conway has just visited and shared bad news regarding Lyons but also had good news regarding the Prince of Saxe Cobourg gaining a victory over the French at Maubeuge.
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