BIB_ID
332141
Accession number
MA 495.47
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1793 Nov. 19.
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 nineteenth 1793" and franked "Free Orford."
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).
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).
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
Concerning the Berrys travel plans and remarking on his own decision to stay [at Strawberry Hill] for another week; clarifying a false report concerning a murdered and drowned Frenchman; regretting that he has no real news to share concerning France with Mr. Berry, but mentioning a Frenchman who came to Richmond, some deaths, and the report that the royalists at La Vendée have gained advantages; noting that the "aspect northward is not so propitious" and referring to the King of Prussia and Duke of Brunswick; noting that the newspaper has just come but brings no important articles. Mentioning that Lady Westmorland left her vast fortune to her eldest daughter [Lady Sara Sophia Fane].
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