BIB_ID
333512
Accession number
MA 497.45
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Display Date
1771 Jan. 28.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 23.4 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.
There is no salutation, however, Walpole has endorsed the letter at the top of the first page "To the Duchesse of Choiseul."
There is no salutation, however, Walpole has endorsed the letter at the top of the first page "To the Duchesse of Choiseul."
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
Expressing his regrets on her husband's fall from power.
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