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Extract of an autograph letter : "Strawberry Hill"[London], to the Dowager Duchesse d'Aiguillon, 1766 Nov. 3.

BIB_ID
332421
Accession number
MA 497.8
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Display Date
1766 Nov. 3.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 23.4 cm
Notes
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.
This extract is from Walpole's letter to the Duchesse d'Aiguillon of the same date (MA 497.7) and begins with "Mr. Hume has, I own, surprised me" and ending with "Nor am I surprised, that a trifle, designed as a jest."
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
Being a extract from a letter to the Duchesse d'Aiguillon concerning the quarrel between Hume and Rousseau.