BIB_ID
333477
Accession number
MA 497.35
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Display Date
[1782 Aug. 18].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 19.9 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.
The text of the letter that was sent to George Rose is published in "The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence," edited by W. S. Lewis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1944, vol. 42, p. 32-33; Walpole has endorsed this draft as "not sent."
The text of the letter that was sent to George Rose is published in "The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence," edited by W. S. Lewis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1944, vol. 42, p. 32-33; Walpole has endorsed this draft as "not sent."
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
Thanking him for his help in sorting out a misunderstanding which resulted from a request by the Commissioner of the Treasury for an accounting of expenditures in Walpole's stationery allowance.
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