Record ID:
333463
Accession number:
MA 497.32
Credit:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1904.
Description:
1 item (1 p.), bound ; 12.4 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.
Summary:
Expressing his "extreme contempt for an anonymous writer"......who shows a willingness to stab in the dark, but luckily possesses no sharper a weapon than a broom-stick, with which he has clumsily knocked himself down, to my great diversion."
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.
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