LETTERS

OF

HORACE WALPOLE,

EARL OF ORFORD:

INCLUDING

NUMEROUS LETTERS NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS.

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET; Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

1840.

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CONTENTS

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THE THIRD VOLUME.

[The Letters now first collected are marked N.]

1753.

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To George Montagu, Esq. June 11.-Parliamentary altercations.

Clandestine Marriage-bill. Bon-mot of Keith's

To Sir Horace Mann, June 12.- Description of Strawberry

Hill. Clandestine Marriage-bill. Execution of Dr. Cameron.

To George Montagu, Esq. July 17.-Death of Miss Brown.

Tom Hervey's letter to Sir William Bunbury. Story of Dr.

Suckling. George Selwyn's bon-mot. Elopement. Marriage-

bill.

To Sir Horace Mann, July 21.- Electioneering. Snuff-taking.
Death of Lord Pomfret

To John Chute, Esq. Aug. 4.- Visit to Greatworth. Sir Harry
Danvers described. White-knights. Middleton. Wroxton.
Steane Chapel. Stowe. Temple of Friendship. Warkworth.
To George Montagu, Esq. Aug. 16.-Stowe. Sir Harry Danvers.
To Richard Bentley, Esq. Sept.-New Camden's "Britannia.”
Oxford. Birmingham. Hagley. Worcester. Malvern Abbey.
Visit to George Selwyn at Matson. Gloucester Cathedral.
Hutchinsonians

To Sir Horace Mann, Oct. 6.

amusements

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The Modenese treaty. Gothic

To the same, Dec. 6.-Prince Heraclius. Party feuds in Ireland.

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Bianca Capello

To George Montagu, Esq. Dec. 6.

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Death of his uncle Erasmus

Shorter, and of Lord Burlington. The Opera. Glover's "Boa-
dicea." Lords Huntingdon and Stormont

To Richard Bentley, Esq. Dec. 19.- Eulogy on his drawings.
Deaths of Lords Clarendon, Thanet, and Burlington. "Sir
Charles Grandison." Hogarth's "Analysis of Beauty." Wood's
Palmyra." Opera. The Niccolini

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To Sir Horace Mann, January 28. - Story of Bianca Capello.
Sortes Walpolianæ. Serendipity. Dissuades him from taking
the name of Guise. Sir James Gray. His father's maxim. The
Opera and Niccolini. Miss Elizabeth Pitt.
To Richard Bentley, Esq. March 2.- The Duke of Cumberland's
visit to Strawberry Hill. Proceedings in Parliament. New
Mutiny-bill. Death of Dr. Mead. Sortes Walpolianæ

To the same, March 6. Ironical account of the death of Mr.

Pelham. Francis's tragedy of "Constantine." Crisp's "Vir-

ginia." Lord Bolingbroke's works

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To Sir Horace Mann, March 7.-State of parties. The new can-
didates for office. Particulars of the death of Mr. Pelham
To Richard Bentley, Esq. March 17.-The new ministry. George
Selwyn's bons-mots. Orator Henley. Beckford and Delaval at
Shaftesbury

To George Montagu, Esq. March 19.-

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The new ministry. Resigna-

-The Duke of Newcastle all-powerful.
Irish politics. Drummond's “Travels.”
April 30. Whitehead's tragedy of

The new Parliament.
To John Chute, Esq.
"Creusa." Tragi-comedy at the Opera

To the same, May 14.-Anecdote of Prince Poniatowski and the
Duchess of Gordon

To Richard Bentley, Esq. May 18. Progress of improvements
at Strawberry Hill. Trial of Betty Canning. Regency-bill
To George Montagu, Esq. May 21.-Death of Mr. Chute's father.
To Sir Horace Mann, May 23. - War of the Delmontis. Death
of Mr. Chute's father. Regency-bill
To the same, June 5. Mr. Brand of the Hoo. Lady Caroline
Pierpoint. Affair of Lord Orford and Miss Nicholl. Election
petitions

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To George Montagu, Esq, June 8.-Invitation to Strawberry Hill

To the same, June 29.-Lady Caroline Petersham's christening

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