BIB_ID
333245
Accession number
MA 497.29
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Display Date
1787 May 3.
Description
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 20.2 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.
Removed in 1922 from Hayley's "The Life of George Romney."
Written in the hand of Walpole's secretary, Thomas Kirgate.
Removed in 1922 from Hayley's "The Life of George Romney."
Written in the hand of Walpole's secretary, Thomas Kirgate.
Summary
Saying he has been "laid up for these three weeks by a sharp fit of the gout;" asking him to convey his "thanks and gratitude..... to the gentlemen of the Society of Dilettanti, for the honour of their very valuable present."
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