BIB_ID
332417
Accession number
MA 497.5
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Display Date
[1757 Nov. 25].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Endorsed "Mr. H. Walpole / Feb. 1758 / with copy of Verses."
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.
Place of writing inferred from contents; 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.
Place of writing inferred from contents; identity of the recipient from W.S. Lewis.
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
Saying he has just arrived and will visit him after dinner; including five 4-line stanzas of verse "To Mr. Conway;" apologizing for the haste in which it was written; adding "I wish for the sake of the subject it were better."
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