BIB_ID
333527
Accession number
MA 497.49
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Display Date
[1766 ? Sept].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 23.2 cm
Notes
Address panel addressed to "Mr. H.S. Woodfall / near the corner of Ivy Lane / Paternoster Row."
Endorsed in an unknown hand "By the Hon'ble H. Walpole."
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.
Walpole has signed the letter with the initials "I.G."
Woodfall was the printer and publisher of the "Public Advertiser."
Endorsed in an unknown hand "By the Hon'ble H. Walpole."
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.
Walpole has signed the letter with the initials "I.G."
Woodfall was the printer and publisher of the "Public Advertiser."
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
Sending lines of verse given to him by the landlord of a public house and written by the landlord's apprentice; suggesting they might be good enough to be published.
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