BIB_ID
332375
Accession number
MA 497.1
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Display Date
1735 [ ca.Oct. 15].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p.), bound ; 22.3 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of the correspondence of Horace Walpole to various recipients including Henry Seymour Conway, Benjamin Ibbot and Horace Mann; with miscellaneous writings and copies of the writings of others. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Walpole has signed the letter "Horatius Italicus" and beneath the place of writing and the year of writing he has written "In the Stile of Addison's Travels."
Walpole has signed the letter "Horatius Italicus" and beneath the place of writing and the year of writing he has written "In the Stile of Addison's Travels."
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
Writing in the style of Addison, Walpole describes his travels from London to Cambridge; annotating his letter with notes in the margin.
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