BIB_ID
332382
Accession number
MA 497.3
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Display Date
1756 Sept. 2.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p), bound ; 18.3 cm
Notes
Identity of the recipient from W.S. Lewis.
Part of a collection of the correspondence of Horace Walpole to various recipients including Henry Seymour Conway, Benjamin Ibbot and Horace Mann and with a small number of 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.
Part of a collection of the correspondence of Horace Walpole to various recipients including Henry Seymour Conway, Benjamin Ibbot and Horace Mann and with a small number of 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.
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
Relating news of the people he saw while he was in London; saying that he "found the pamphlet much in vogue, and indeed it is smartly written."
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