BIB_ID
332172
Accession number
MA 495.49
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1793 Nov. 30.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 19.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed "To Miss Berry at Mr. Cholmeley's at Bransby near York." Headed "London November the thirtieth 1793" and franked "Free Orford."
Followed on p. 3 by notes clarifying points in the letter in the hand of Mary Berry.
Numbered "No. 69."
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.
Followed on p. 3 by notes clarifying points in the letter in the hand of Mary Berry.
Numbered "No. 69."
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
Concerning the confusion about Lord Howe's victory; thanking her for a letter but wishing that Agnes would write more frequently, if only to add a postscript to Mary's letters; mentioning engagements and mutual acquaintances, including Mrs. Damer; relating a story concerning the Roman mob; wondering about Lord Moria's campaign. Continuing the letter Half an hour after three: remarking that he has just had a visit from someone who came from the Secretary's office and that there is no further news about Lord Howe.
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