BIB_ID
332424
Accession number
MA 497.9
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Display Date
1767 May 8.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p.), bound ; 19.9 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
Being a detailed description of a speech given by Charles Townshend; this letter is an extract of a letter written to Mann on this date but which burned; see Walpole's letter to Mann of May 12, 1767 in which he refers to this letter in volume 22, p. 512 of W.S. Lewis.
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