… plays as well as historiographical works. She met a large number of literati, artists, and politicians and cultivated friendships with Walpole, the sculptor Anne Damer, and the playwright Joanna Baillie, documented through letters, which … social contacts can serve to highlight her networks: Horace Walpole, Anne Seymor Damer, and Joanna Baillie. The Berrys' friendship with (or patronage through) Walpole – writer, collector, author, creator of the mock Gothic mansion Strawberry … sent them, which are contained in two volumes of the monumental Yale edition of Walpole's correspondence. 10 Their friendship took the form of a gallant game: in a series of playful and gossipy letters, Walpole addressed the young women …