BIB_ID
332617
Accession number
MA 497.19
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Display Date
1783 July 27.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address), bound ; 20.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "the right honorable / General Conway / in little Warwick Street / London."
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.
The last words of the last four lines of the letter have been excised; the printed text provides those missing words from notes supplied by Mrs. Toynbee.
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.
The last words of the last four lines of the letter have been excised; the printed text provides those missing words from notes supplied by Mrs. Toynbee.
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
Giving an account of his health and the pain in his hands and feet; saying that the Prince d'Hessenstein wishes to visit; expressing concern for his goldfish in the heat of the summer.
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