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.
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