BIB_ID
330983
Accession number
MA 494.3
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Display Date
1789 Mar. 25.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.1 cm
Notes
Location of writing identified by Lewis and Wallace as [Berkeley Square].
Numbered "No. 3."
Part of a collection of letters from Horace Walpole to Mary and Agnes Berry. Items in the collection have been described individually; see related collection-level record for more information. See also MA 495 (Letters from Walpole to the Misses Berry, 1791-1793); MA 496 (Letters from Walpole to the Misses Berry, 1794-1796, and letters from the Misses Berry to Walpole); and MA 497 (letters to various persons and miscellaneous writings).
Recipients identified by Lewis and Wallace.
Numbered "No. 3."
Part of a collection of letters from Horace Walpole to Mary and Agnes Berry. Items in the collection have been described individually; see related collection-level record for more information. See also MA 495 (Letters from Walpole to the Misses Berry, 1791-1793); MA 496 (Letters from Walpole to the Misses Berry, 1794-1796, and letters from the Misses Berry to Walpole); and MA 497 (letters to various persons and miscellaneous writings).
Recipients identified by Lewis and Wallace.
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
Clarifying the postscript "I will" in an earlier letter to mean that he accepts an invitation; suspecting that he is "a little in love" and that she is not, otherwise she would have understood his intention. Referring to Agnes and remarking "I am not less in love with my wife Rachel, than with my wife Leah."
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