BIB_ID
332139
Accession number
MA 495.46
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1793 Nov. 14.
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 November the fifteenth 1793" and franked "Free Orford."
Numbered "No. 68."
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.
Numbered "No. 68."
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
Regretting that he is forced to "speak of butcheries as welcome news" but remarking that the National Convention has "destroyed twenty-one of its own murderers" and mentioning the death of Marat and the imprisonment of some noblewomen. Continuing the letter At night: mentioning that he saw the Cambridges that night and learned that France has declared war on the Genoese; discussing a play; mentioning that he has not left Strawberry Hill because of the fine weather. Continuing the letter on Friday noon: reporting, on just having received the newspaper, that the Duke of Orleans is dead, as is Lady Westmoreland.
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