BIB_ID
332420
Accession number
MA 497.7
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Display Date
1766 Nov. 3.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p.), bound ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Endorsed by Walpole "To the Dowager Duchess d'Aiguillon."
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
Thanking her for her kindness when he was ill; commenting on Hume's quarrel with Rousseau; saying "for men of letters delight in these silly altercations though they affect to condemn them. It spreads their names and they are often known by their disputes, when they cannot make themselves talked of for their talents;" adding that "..a real genius as Rousseau cannot appear, but he causes all the insignificant scribblers in Europe to overwhelm the public with their opinions of him and his writings. But he may comfort himself; his works will be admired, when the compilers of dictionaries and mercuries will be as much forgotten as your Grace's / most obedient humble servant / Horace Walpole."
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