BIB_ID
333556
Accession number
MA 497.54
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p.), bound ; 6.6 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.
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
Being an eight-line continuation of a four-line verse parody written by Walpole; the first four lines of the parody follow four lines of verse by François Maynard and are in this volume as MA 497.53.
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