In 1791 the Berrys moved into Little Strawberry Hill, the cottage on Walpole's estate where they remained in close touch until his death in 1797. The sisters were willed life use of the cottage and Mary was appointed his literary executrix and the editor of his correspondence. Life-tenancy of Strawberry Hill was given to his niece, the sculptress, Anne Seymour Damer. Walpole wrote that he loved Anne, the daughter of his cousin, Henry Seymour Conway, as his own child, and likened her modeling to that of Bernini.