Series of five autograph letters to Madame du Deffand ...
Description:
In French, accompanied by English translations in typescript (26 leaves)., Also accompanied by a short biography of Madame du Deffand in ms. (2 leaves), Set in sunk mounts, bound in v. of [36] leaves., Letters dated: 1775 January 4, 13, 19, 27, 31., Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, London., Published in the Yale edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, 1939, v. 6, pp. 131-52., The letters were part of the ms. collection bequeathed by Madame du Deffand to Horace Walpole. Sold at the Strawberry Hill Sale, 1842, to Dyce-Sombre whose nephew, W.R. Parker-Jervis sold them in 1920. Acquired by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis in 1932., Formerly classed as: 49 2545 I., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780. and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
A collection of portraits, clippings, playbills, Horace Walpole's bookplate (State 1), miniatures and letters (now shelved separately), and a lock of hair (also shelved separately) all related to Horace Walpole and his villa Strawberry Hill; all bound or laid in a volume. A brief one page biography of Horace Walpole printed with the incorrect year of birth, ends: "He died a martyr to the gout March 2, 1797"-- "Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, born in the year 1716. The younger son of Sir Robert Walpole ...". Laid in prints include a view "North front of Strawberry-Hill / Barlow del. et sculp." Portraits include: Horatio Earl of Orford; Thos. Kirgate; Duchesse de Choiseul and Madame la Marquise du Deffand; Madame la Marquise du Deffand; Françoise Marguerite de Sevigné, Comtesse de Grignan; Marie de Rabutin Chantal, Mme. de Sévigné; Miss Berry; Mme. de Maintenon; Madme. de Maintenon, from the original in the Versailles Gallery; Mary Magdalen, wife of Horatio Lord Walpole; Horatio Lord Walpole from an original by Vanloo at Strawberry Hill; Honble. Anne Damer from an original in the possession of the Right Honble. Genl. Conway; Field Marshall Conway; The Honble. Horace Walpole from a picture by Eckardt in the Collection at Strawberry Hill; Horace Walpole and Miss Walpole, two minatures by Zincke. Also mounted or laid in are the bookplates of Mrs. Damer and Horace Walpole. Two theatre programs, one dated November 1800, for a performance of The old Maid and Intriguing Chambermaid and the other dated November 1801 for a performance of Fashionable friends and Lover's quarrels and Also laid in where a lock of Mme de Maintenon's hair had been fixed (now removed): a letter in Paget Toynbee's hand describing Horace Walpole's two accounts of how he came to possession of a letter of Madame de Maintenon
Alternative Title:
Strawberry Hill rarities
Description:
Title stamped in gilt-lettering on front cover., Bound in brown morocco with gold tooling by Riviere & Son; stamped on inside front cover., With a list of items removed and shelved separately; other notes written on the pages indicate what other items were removed and where they were filed at the time of dispersal., and Digitized pages with materials, skipping blank pages. Manuscripts removed and now filed in LWL MSS 36. For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780
Call Number:
LWL MSS 11 Box 13
Image Count:
152
Description:
Bound in red morocco, with a clasp., Accompanied by Horace Walpole's "portrait" of Madame du Deffand [Holograph] (3 p.) and his account of her "portraits" [Holograph] (5 p.), Includes an index., and Some "portraits" are printed as appendices in the Yale edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, 1939, v.8, including one of Horace Walpole.