The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford

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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Letters of Horace Walpole.Volume 1.by Horace Walpole.PREFACE.The letters of Horace W
The Letters of Horace Walpole.Volume 1.by Horace Walpole.PREFACE.The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, as. .h.i.therto published, have consisted of,- 1. The letters contained in the quarto edition of his works, published in the year 1798.2. His l

101 We reproach Spain, and yet do not even pretend the nonsense of butchering these poor creatures for the good of their souls!I have just received your long letter of February 13th, and am pleased that I had writ this volume to return it. I don't know h 2024-4-23
102 WHO IS THIS?Her face has beauty, we must all confess, But beauty on the brink of ugliness: Her mouth's a rabbit feeding on a rose; With eyes-ten times too good for such a nose!Her blooming cheeks-what paint could ever draw 'em?That Paint, for wh 2024-4-23
103 Stosch has grievously offended me; but that he will little regard, as I can be of no use to him: he has sold or given his charming intaglio of the Gladiator to Lord Duncannon. I must reprove you a little who sent it; you know how much I pressed you to buy 2024-4-23
104 I had just sent my letter to the [email protected]'s office the other day, when I received yours: it would have prevented my reproving you for not mentioning the quarrel between the Pope and the Venetians; and I should have had time to tell you that 2024-4-23
105 You must not pretend to be concerned at having missed one here, when I had repeatedly begged you, to let me know what day you would call; and even after you had learnt that I was to come the next day, you paraded by my house with all your matrimonial stre 2024-4-23
106 86 Letter 33 To Sir Horace Mann.Arlington Street, Dec. 19, 1750.Well! you may be easy; your friends have been to see me at last, but it has so happened that we have never once met, nor have I even seen their persons. They live at Newcastle-house; and thou 2024-4-23
107 (221) Edward Wortley Montague, whose singular adventures and eccentricities are so well known. In 1747, he was chosen member for the county of Huntingdon; but in his senatorial capacity he did not distinguish himself. His expenses greatly exceeding his in 2024-4-23
108 I find I must send away my letter this week, and reserve the history of the Regency for another post. The bill was to have been brought into the House of lords to-day, but Sherlock, the Bishop of London, has raised difficulties against the limitation of t 2024-4-23
109 Our charming Mr. Bentley is doing Gray as much more honour as he deserves than Spencer. He is drawing vignettes for his Odes; what a valuable MS. I shall have! Warburton publishes his edition of Pope next week, with the famous piece of prose on Lord Herve 2024-4-23
110 I am charmed with your behaviour to the Count on the affair of the Leghorn allegiance; I don't wonder he is willing to transport you to Genoa! Your priest's epigram is strong; I suppose he had a dispensation for making a false quant.i.ty in secu 2024-4-23
111 P. S. I have tipped Mr. Conway's direction with French, in case it should be necessary to send it after him.(288) lord Bolingbroke died on the 15th.-E.(289) The late Prince of Wales: it alludes to a line in The Mourning Bride."120 Letter 52 To G 2024-4-23
112 Mr. Conway has been arrived this fortnight, or a week sooner than we expected him: but my Lady Ailesbury forgives it! He is full of your praises, so you have not sowed your goodness in unthankful ground. By a letter I have just received from you he finds 2024-4-23
113 You will be pleased with a story of Lord Bury, that is come from Scotland: he is quartered at Inverness: the magistrates invited him to an entertainment with fire-works, which they intended to give on the morrow for the Duke's birthday. He thanked th 2024-4-23
114 (327) She was a Miss Strafford. The perusal of Cr'ebillon's works inspired her with such a pa.s.sion for the author, that she ran away from her friends, went to Paris, married him, and nursed and attended him with exemplary tenderness and affect 2024-4-23
115 145 Letter 65 To George Montagu, Esq.Strawberry Hill, Aug. 28, 1752.Will you never have done jigging at Northampton with that old harlotry Major Compton? Peggy Trevor told me, she had sent you a mandate to go thither. Shall I tell you how I found Peggy, t 2024-4-23
116 it is too ridiculous!The preceptor is as much in suspense as the governor. The Whigs clamour so much against Johnson, that they are regarded,- -at least for a time. Keene,(361) Bishop of Chester, and brother of your brother minister, has been talked of. H 2024-4-23
117 (371) "The debate was long and heavy; the Duke of Bedford's performance moderate enough: he divided the House, but it was not told, for there went below the bar with him the Earl of Harcourt, Lord Townshend, the Bishop of Worcester, and Lord Tal 2024-4-23
118 "Dear Sir, Wrote you a supernumerary letter on Sat.u.r.day, but as I find you have s.h.i.+fted your quarters since I heard from 'YOU, imagine it may not have reached you yet. If you want to know what made me so a.s.siduous, it was to tell you Si 2024-4-23
119 Before I finish, I must describe to you the manner in which I overtook Monsieur le Duc de Mirepoix t'other day, who lives at Lord Dunkeron's house at Turnham-green. It was seven o'clock in the evening of one of the hottest and most dusty da 2024-4-23
120 Don't you suspect, that I have not only forgot the pleasure I had at Greatworth and Wroxton,(420) but the commissions you gave me too? It looks a little ungrateful not to have vented a word of thanks; but I stayed to write till I could send you the t 2024-4-23
121 (433) One of the pretenders to the throne of Persia, who gained many victories about this time.(434) When Mr. Walpole was at Florence he saw a fine picture by Vasari of the Great d.u.c.h.ess Bianca Capello, in the palace of the Marchese Vitelli, whose fam 2024-4-23
122 I shall tell you a new instance of the Sortes Walpolianae: I lately bought an old volume of pamphlets; I found at the end a history of the Dukes of Lorrain, and with that an account of a series of their medals, of which, says the author, there are but two 2024-4-23
123 T'other replied, "Art thou the much more famous Delaval?"But to leave politics and change of ministries, and to come to something of real consequence, I must apply you to my library ceiling, of which I send you some rudiments. I propose to 2024-4-23
124 My dear Sir, Unless you will be exact in dating your letters, you will occasion me much confusion. Since the undated one which I mentioned in my last, I have received another as unregistered, with the fragment of the rock, telling me of one which had set 2024-4-23
125 213 Letter 106 To Sir Horace Mann.Strawberry Hill, July 5, 1754.I believe you never receive a letter from me at this season of the year, without wis.h.i.+ng for winter, that I might have something to tell you. Warm weather in England disperses all the wor 2024-4-23
126 Mr. Chute is much yours: I am going with him in a day or two to his Vine, where I shall try to draw him into amusing himself a little with building and planting; hitherto he has done nothing with his estate-but good.You will have observed what precaution 2024-4-23
127 The cutting and s.h.i.+ppage would be articles of some little consequence! Who should be supervisor? You, who are so good a manager, so attentive, so diligent, so expeditious, and so accurate? Don't you think our quarry would turn to account?Another 2024-4-23
128 233 Letter 120 To George Montagu, Esq.Arlington Street, Jan. 7, 1755.I imagined by your letter the Colonel was in town, and was shocked at not having been to wait on him; upon inquiry, I find he is not; and now, can conceive how he came to tell you, that 2024-4-23
129 (552) Who shot himself at Kippax Park.-E.(553) At Fonthill, in Wilts.h.i.+re. The loss was computed at thirty thousand pounds.-E.241 letter 125 To Richard Bentley, Esq.Arlington Street, March 6, 1755.My dear sir, I have to thank you for two letters and a 2024-4-23
130 248 Letter 130 To Richard Bentley, Esq.Arlington Street, April 24, 1755.I don't doubt but you will conclude that this letter, written so soon after my last, comes to notify a great sea-victory, or defeat; or that the French are landed in Ireland, and 2024-4-23
131 (571) Mr. Walpole had invited Mr. muntz from Jersey, and he lived for some time at Strawberry Hill.(572) Youngest son of Thomas, elder brother of the Earl of St.Albans. He was created Baron Dover in 1685, and died without issue in 1708.-E.(573) One of Cha 2024-4-23
132 (586) Arthur Young, in his "Six Weeks' Tour," gives the following description of Wanstead: "It is one of the n.o.blest houses in England. The magnificence of having four state bed- chambers, with complete apartments to them, and the ba 2024-4-23
133 (597) General Hawley, who behaved with great cruelty and brutality in the Scotch rebellion, which did not however Prevent his being beaten by the rebels,-D.(598) The story of this unfortunate young lady is told by Goldsmith, in his amusing Life of Beau Na 2024-4-23
134 In the mean time I am going to Bath, not for my health, you know I never am ill, but for my amus.e.m.e.nt. I never was there, and at present there are several of my acquaintance. The French academy have chosen my Lord Chesterfield, and he has written them 2024-4-23
135 You know, my dear Sir, that I do not love to have you taken unprepared: the last visit I announced to you was of the Lord Dacre of the South and of the Lady Baroness, his spouse: the next company you may expect will be composed of the Prince of Soubise an 2024-4-23
136 Never was poor invulnerable Immortality so soon brought to shame! Alack! I have had the gout! would fain have persuaded myself that it was a sprain: and, then, that it was only the gout come to look for Mr. Chute at Strawberry Hill: but none of my evasion 2024-4-23
137 648) Lord Edgec.u.mbe.(649) Second daughter of Charles second Duke of Marlborough.-E.298 Letter 166 To Sir Horace Mann.Arlington Street, Dec. 12, 1755.I am glad, my dear Sir, that you have not wasted many alarms on the invasion; it does not seem to have b 2024-4-23
138 303 Letter 170 To The Hon. H. S. Conway.Arlington Street, Jan. 24, 1756.Oh sir, I shall take care how I ever ask favours of you again!It was with great reluctance that I brought myself to ask this: you took no notice of my request; and I flattered myself 2024-4-23
139 (661) Dr. Douglas, afterwards Bishop of Salisbury, an intimate friend of Lord Bath. He had detected sundry errors in Bower's Lives of the Popes.-D.312 Letter 175 To The Hon. H. S. Conway.Arlington Street, March 4, 1756.Dear Harry, I have received so 2024-4-23
140 Since I began this, I receive yours of April 2d, full of uneasiness for your brother's quicksilver and its effects. I did not mention it to you, because, though it put him back, his physicians were persuaded that he would not suffer, and he has not. 2024-4-23
141 323 Letter 184 To Sir Horace Mann.Arlington Street, May 27, 1756.Your brother is determined to go to Bristol in ten days: our summer, which n.o.body but the almanack has the confidence to say is not winter, is so cold that he does not advance at all. If h 2024-4-23
142 (700) Thomas Belasyse, fourth Viscount and first Earl of Fauconberg. He died in 1774.-D.330 Letter 188 To George Montagu, Esq.June 18.The two drawings of the Vine and Strawberry, which you desired, are done. and packed up in a box; tell me how I must send 2024-4-23
143 With all his faults and arbitrary behaviour, one must wors.h.i.+p his spirit and eloquence: where one esteems but a single royalist, one need not fear being too partial. When I visited his tomb in the church (which is remarkably neat and pretty, and enric 2024-4-23
144 Peace is made between the courts of Kensington and Kew; Lord Bute(723) who had no visible employment at the latter, and yet whose office was certainly no sinecure, is to be groom of the stole(724) to the Prince of Wales; which satisfies. The rest of the f 2024-4-23
145 348 Letter 202 To Sir Horace Mann.Arlington Street, Nov. 13, 1756.Your brother has told me that Mr. Pitt accepts your southern province, yielding to leave Lord Holderness in the northern.I don't know what calm you at this distance may suppose this will p 2024-4-23
146 Your poor brother desires me to write to you to-day, as he is in bed (and not able. He went to town last week, caught cold, and returned with a fever. He has been drinking tar-water since the middle of November, at the persuasion of your older brother and 2024-4-23
147 (749) "The King became every day more and more averse to his new ministers. Pitt, indeed, had not frequent occasions of giving offence, having been confined by the gout the greater part of the winter; and when he made his appearance he behaved with prope 2024-4-23
148 I have deferred writing to you till I could tell you something certain of the fate of Admiral Byng: no history was ever so extraordinary, or produced such variety of surprising turns.In my last I told you that his sentence was referred to the twelve judge 2024-4-23
149 (781) Second son of Charles second Duke of Richmond. He died in March, 1805.-D.(782) Charles Fitzroy, second Duke of Grafton, lord chamberlain.(783) Lepidus, Duke of Newcastle; Octavius and Anthony, Pitt and Fox.-D.(784) A Florentine Abb'e and wit; autho 2024-4-23
150 I certainly am glad of rain, but could wish it was boiled a little over the sun first: Mr. Bentley calls this the hard summer, and says he is forced to buy his fine weather at Newcastle. Adieu!P. S. Pray acknowledge the receipt of your tickets. I don't k 2024-4-23
151 (803) General Conway.(804) A translation of the Memoirs of the Marquis de Torcy, secretary of state to Louis XIV., had just been published in London. E.(805) For a review of these volumes by Oliver Goldsmith, see the enlarged edition of his Miscellaneous 2024-4-23
152 390 Letter 233 To George Montagu, Esq.Strawberry Hill, Aug. 4, 1757.I shall to-morrow deliver to your agentess, Mrs. Moreland, something to send to you.The Duke(814) is beaten by the French; he and his family are safe; I know no more particulars-if I did, 2024-4-23
153 395 Letter 238 To George Montagu, Esq.Strawberry Hill, Sept. 8, 1757.How I laughed at your picture of the shrine of Notre Dame de Straberri, and of the vows hung up there! I little thought that when I converted my castle into a printing office, the next t 2024-4-23
154 The certificates I suppose can swim. Adieu, my dear lord!(837) Mr. Onslow, the Speaker.402 Letter 244 To Sir Horace Mann.Strawberry Hill, Oct. 12, 1757.I shall Write you but a short letter for more reasons than one--there are you blus.h.i.+ng again for yo 2024-4-23
155 (850) Walpole, in his Royal Authors, says, "I have had both repositories carefully searched. The reference to the Vatican proves a new inaccuracy of the author; there is no work of King Richard. In the Laurentine library is a sonnet written by the King, 2024-4-23
156 (865) Henry Furness had been a lord of the treasury. He was a friend of Lord Bath, and personally an enemy to Sir Robert Walpole.(866) John first Earl Spencer.(867) Robert Wood, Esq. under secretary of state, Mr. Dawkins, and Mr. Bouverie. For a notice of 2024-4-23
157 Sir Charles Williams's disorder appears to have been lightheadedness from a fever; he goes about again; but the world, especially a world of enemies, never care to give up their t.i.tle to a man's madness, and will consequently not believe that he is ye 2024-4-23
158 June, 1758.I am very much obliged to you for the remarks and hints you sent me on my Catalogue. They will be of use to me; and any observations of my friends I shall be very thankful for, and disposed to employ, to make my book, what it is extremely far f 2024-4-23
159 431 Letter 269 To John Chute, Esq.Strawberry Hill, June 29, 1758.The Tower-guns have sworn through thick and thin that Prince Ferdinand has entirely demolished the French, and the city-bonfires all believe it. However, as no officer is yet come, nor confi 2024-4-23
160 (913) In the preceding month, Prince Edward had been appointed a mids.h.i.+pman, and in July embarked on board the Ess.e.x, commanded by Lord Howe, upon the expedition against Cherburg.-E.(914) William Pitt, secretary of state.(915) Lord Anson, first lord 2024-4-23
161 You must, I think, take up with this sc.r.a.p of a letter; consider it contains a conquest. If I wrote any longer, before I could finish my letter, perhaps I should hear that our fleet was come back again, and, though I should be glad they were returned s 2024-4-23
162 (942) The King.(943) M'untz left Mr. Walpole, and published another account himself.(944) Laura, this eldest daughter of Sir Edward Walpole, married to Dr. Frederick Keppel, afterwards Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Exeter.(945) Maria, second daughter, ma 2024-4-23
163 (956) two brothers, successively Lords Howe, were remarkably silent.(957) The battle of Zorndorf.-D.(958) Mary, their youngest sister, was afterwards married to General Pitt, brother of George Lord Rivers.453 Letter 286 To George Montagu, Esq.Arlington St 2024-4-23
164 Cunningham is made quartermaster-general to this equipment; these things don't look as if your interest was increased. As Lord George has sent over his commands for Cunningham, might not his art at the same time have suggested some application to you--te 2024-4-23
165 Knyphausen(979) diverted me yesterday with some anecdotes of the Empress's college of chast.i.ty-not the Russian Empress's.The King of Prussia asked some of his Austrian prisoners whether their mistress consulted her college of chast.i.ty on the letters 2024-4-23
166 I scarce ever yet found any thing one wanted to know in one of those books; all they contain, except encomiums on the Stuarts and the monks, are lists of inst.i.tutions and inductions, and inquiries how names of places were spelt before there was any spel 2024-4-23
167 (1004) Speaking of Wolfe in his Memoires, Walpole says, "Ambition, industry, pa.s.sion for the service, were conspicuous in him. He seemed to breathe for nothing but fame, and lost no moments in qualifying himself to compa.s.s that object.Presumption on 2024-4-23
168 482 Letter 310 To Sir David Dalrymple.(1016) Strawberry Hill, March 25, 1759.I should not trouble you, Sir, so soon again with a letter, but some questions and some pa.s.sages in yours seem to make it necessary. I know nothing of the Life of Gustavus, nor 2024-4-23
169 You will say, that your concealing your name is an answer to all I have said. A bad author may be concealed, but then what good does he do? I am persuaded you would write well-ask your heart, Sir, if you then would like to conceal yourself.Forgive my fran 2024-4-23
170 495 Letter 320 To Sir Horace Mann.Arlington Street, June 22, 1759.Well! they tell us in good earnest that we are to be invaded; Mr. Pitt is as positive of it as of his own invasions. As the French affect an air of grandeur in all they do, "Mr. Pitt sent 2024-4-23
171 I am dying in a hot street, with my eyes full of dust, and my table full of letters to be answered--yet I must write you a line. I am sorry your first of Augustness is disordered; I'll tell you why. I go to Ragley on the twelfth. There is to be a great p 2024-4-23
172 Probably by this time you have seen the Duke of Richmond or Fitzroy--but lest you should not, I will tell you all I can learn, and a wonderful history it is. Admiral Byng was not more unpopular than Lord George Sackville. I should scruple repeating his st 2024-4-23
173 The campaign in Ireland, I hear, will be very warm; the Primate is again to be the object; Ponsonby, commander against him.Lord George's situation will not help the Primate's. Adieu!(1070) Now first printed.512 Letter 335 To George Montagu, Esq.Strawber 2024-4-23
174 518 Letter 341 To The Earl Of Strafford.Strawberry Hill, October 30th, 1759.My dear lord, It would be very extraordinary indeed if I was not glad to see one Whose friends.h.i.+p does me so much honour as your lords.h.i.+p's, and who always expresses so m 2024-4-23
175 The Letters of Horace Walpole.Volume 3.by Horace Walpole.Letter 1 To George Montagu, Esq.Arlington Street, Nov. 17, 1759. (page 25) I rejoice over your brother's honours, though I certainly had no hand in them. He probably received his staff from the boa 2024-4-23
176 I am come hither in the bleakest of all winters, not to air and exercise, but to look after my gold-fish and orange-trees. We import all the delights of hot countries, but as we cannot propagate their climate too, such a season as this is mighty apt to mu 2024-4-23
177 (32) Miss Fenton, the first Polly of the Beggar's Opera. Charles Duke of Bolton took her off the stage, had children by her, and afterwards married her.(33) Lord Charles Hay, brother of the Marquis of Tweedale.Letter 14 To The Rev. Henry Zouch.Strawberry 2024-4-23
178 I should have thought that you might have learnt by this time, that when a tradesman promises any thing on Monday, Or Sat.u.r.day, or any particular day of the week, he means any Monday or any Sat.u.r.day of any week, as nurses quiet children and their ow 2024-4-23
179 When am I likely to see you? The delightful rain is come--we look and smell charmingly. Adieu!Letter 24 To Sir Horace Mann.Strawberry Hill, May 7, 1760. (page 57) What will your Italians say to a peer of England, an earl of one of the best of families, tr 2024-4-23
180 Letter 27 To The Earl Of Strafford.Strawberry Hill, June 7, 1760. (page 66) My dear lord, When at my time of day one can think a ball worth going to London for on purpose, you will not wonder that I am childish enough to write an account of it. I could gi 2024-4-23
181 Mr. Milbank was walking in ovation by himself after the car; and they were going to see the bonfire at the alehouse at the corner.The whole procession returned with me; and from the countess's dressing-room we saw a battery fired before the house, the mo 2024-4-23
182 The moment I can, I will, but this is a tyrant that will not let one name a day. All I know is, that it may abridge my other parties, but shall not my stay at Wentworth Castle. The Duke of Devons.h.i.+re was so good as to ask me to be at Chatsworth yester 2024-4-23
183 (95) Afterwards d.u.c.h.ess of Portland.(96) Anciently the seat of the Vernons. Sir George Vernon, in Queen Elizabeth's time, was styled King of the Peak," and the property came into the Manners family by his daughter marrying Thomas, son of the first E 2024-4-23
184 (107) General Sir Jeffrey Amherst distinguished himself in the war with the French in America. He was subsequently created a peer, and made commander-in-chief.-D.(108) The large armament, intended for a secret expedition and collected at Portsmouth, was d 2024-4-23
185 I trust you will have approved my behaviour at court, that is, my mixing extreme politeness with extreme indifference. Our predecessors, the philosophers of ancient days, knew not how to be disinterested without brutality; I pique myself on founding a new 2024-4-23
186 (119) Afterwards Earl of Shelburne, and in 1784 created Marquis of Lansdowne.-E.(120) A noted procuress.-E.Letter 60 To The Rev. Henry Zouch Arlington Street, Jan. 3, 1761. (page 107) Sir, I stayed till I had the Lucan ready to send you, before I thanked 2024-4-23
187 If it were not printed in the London Chronicle, I would transcribe for you, Sir, a very weak letter of Voltaire to Lord Lyttelton,(132) and the latter's answer: there is nothing else new, but a very indifferent play,(133) called The Jealous Wife, so well 2024-4-23
188 (144) the prayer of Sir Robert Walpole, recorded on the foundation-stone, was, that "after its master, to a mature old age, had long enjoyed it in perfection, his latest descendants might safely possess it to the end of time."-E.Letter 70 To The Hon. H. 2024-4-23
189 Letter 75 To George Montagu, Esq.Arlington Street, May 5, 1761. (page 123) We have lost a young genius, Sir William Williams;(155) an express from Belleisle, arrived this morning, brings nothing but his death. He was shot very unnecessarily, riding too ne 2024-4-23
190 Strawberry Hill, July 5, 1761. (page 130) You are a pretty sort of a person to come to one's house and get sick, only to have an excuse for not returning to it. Your departure is so abrupt, that I don't know but I may expect to find that Mrs. Jane Trueb 2024-4-23
191 (171) Wife of the Count de Welderen, one of the lords of the States of Holland.-E.(172) The first words of a favourite French air, with Madame Welderen's confusion of p's, t's' etc.(173) A character in Steele's comedy of The Tender Husband, or the Ac 2024-4-23
192 I am expecting Mr. Chute to hold a chapter on the cabinet. A barge-load of niches, window-frames, and ribs, is arrived. The cloister is paving, the privy garden making, painted gla.s.s adjusting to the windows on the back stairs - with so many irons in th 2024-4-23
193 I cannot swear I wrote to you again to offer your brother the place for the coronation; but I was Confident I did, nay, I think so still: my proofs are, the place remained vacant, and I sent to old Richard to inquire if Mr. John was not arrived. He had no 2024-4-23
194 Letter 100 To The Hon. H. S. Conway.Strawberry Hill, Oct. 26, 1761. (page 157) and how strange it seems! You are talking to me of the King's wedding, while we are thinking of a civil war. Why, the King's wedding was a century ago, almost two months; eve 2024-4-23
195 Dr. Robertson's work I should expect would be more accurate.P. S. There has lately appeared, in four little volumes, a Chinese Tale, called Hau Kiou Choaan,(205) not very entertaining from the incidents, but I think extremely so from the novelty of the m 2024-4-23
196 We have had as many mails due from Ireland as you had from us. I have at last received a line from you; it tells me you are well, which I am always glad to hear; I cannot say you tell me much more. My health is so little subject to alteration, and so pres 2024-4-23
197 I am sorry Lady Kingsland is so rich. However, if the Papists should be likely to rise, pray disarm her of the enamel, and commit it to safe custody in the round tower at Strawberry. Good night! mine is a life of letter-writing; I pray for a peace that I 2024-4-23
198 You may fancy what you -will, but the eyes of all the world are not fixed upon Ireland. Because you have a little virtue, and a lord-lieutenant(224) that refuses four thousand pounds a-year, and a chaplain(225) of a lord-lieutenant that declines a huge bi 2024-4-23
199 Since you left Strawberry, the town (not the King of Prussia) has beaten Count Daun, and made the peace, but the benefits of either have not been felt beyond Change Alley. Lord Melcomb is dying(234) of a dropsy in his stomach,' and Lady Mary Wortley of a 2024-4-23
200 Letter 134 To The Hon. H. S. Conway.Strawberry Hill, Sept. 9, 1762. (page 191) Nondurn laurus erat, longoque decentia crine Tempera cingebat de qualibet arbore Phoebus.(238) This is a hint to you, that Phoebus, who was certainly your superior, could take 2024-4-23