Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Collection of autograph letters signed : various places, to various people 1735-1796.

BIB_ID
332337
Accession number
MA 497.1-56
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1735-1796.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 v. (56 items), bound ; 24.9 cm
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
Collection contains thirty-four letters written by Walpole to various recipients including Benjamin Ibbot, Horace Mann, Thomas Gray and Henry Seymour Conway; twenty-two miscellaneous writings which include short essays, transcripts of the writing of others, notes and memoranda. Letters and writings have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.