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Search - The Letters Of Horace Walpole, Earl Of Orford, Vol. IX.

The Letters Of Horace Walpole Earl Of Orford Vol IX
Author: Horace Walpole

THE LETTERS HORACE WALROLE EARL OF OXFORD L-C EDlTED BP PETER CUNNINGHAM. X O W FIRST CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRAXGED. IN NINE voLuMES.-vOL. IX. - PREFACE - THE leading features of this edition may be briefly stated -I. The publication for the first time of the Entire correspondence of Walpole 2665 Letters in a chronological and uniform order. 11. The ... more »reprinting greatly within the compass of nine volumes the fourteen, far from uniform, volumes, hitherto commonly known as the only edition of Walpoles Letters. 111. The publication for the first time of 117 Letters written by Horace Walpole many in his best mood, d illustrative of Wdpoles period while others reveal matter of moment connected with the man himself. IV. The introduction for the first time into any collection of Walpoles Letters, of 35 letters hitherto scattered over many printed books and papers. The letters hitherto unprinted are addressed to the following persons -DUD OF LOUOESTER. MR. PELHAM. MR Fox LORD HOLLAND. Howare WALPOLE S , EN. SIR EDWAXDW ALPOLE. LORD ORWORD. LORD HAROOURT. LORD HERTFORD. LORD BUCHAN. EORGE MONTAQU. SIR HOB C E A N N JU , N . F s aC Bawsum. JOSEP W H A RTON. EDMUNDM ALOIE. ROBERT DODSLBY. ISAA R O E ED. GROSVENOBRE DFORD. CHARLESB EDFORD. HEIDERSOIi THE A TOR EDMUN LO D D GE. DUOHESS OF LOUOESTER LADY LYTTELTON. LADY CECILIA JOHNSTOI. LADYB ROWHE. ETO. ETO. vi IIE CUNNINGHAIIS PREFACE. The letters now first collected are addressed to the following persons -DR. PEECY. MR. PINKERTON. NR. BUNBURY. THE MAYOR OB LYBN. MRS. CARTER. MISS BURNEY. ETO. ETO. I have received new and very important assistance in this long and anxious task -I. To his Grace the Duke of Manchester, I am indebted for unrestricted access to the original letters addressed by Walpole to Gteorge Montagu, as well as to the original letters addressed to Walpole by Montagu. A collation of Walpoles letters with the printed letters, has corrected many blunders, and supplied many omissions. It will be found that Montagus letters, hitherto unseen by any editor, have furnished valuable illustrative notes to his correspondents letters. 11. To Frances Countess of Waldegrave, the restorer of Strawberry Hill, I owe the opportunity of printing for the fist time the correspondence, preserved at Nuneham, of Walpole with Lord Harcourt. This good service to literature has been, if possible, enhanced by the kindness of George Granville Harcourt, Esq., N. P. 111. To the late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker I am under many obligations but my friend, unhappily for me, did not live to receive my printed thanks, or render any assistance to me beyond my third volume. Through Mr. Croker I had access to Lord Hertfords unpublished correspondence with Horace Walpole. Nor was this all hfr. Croker kindly placed at my service his own annotated copies of Walpoles Works, and of Mr. Wrights edition of Walpoles Letters. IT. Through John Forster, Esq., author, among other works, of the Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, I obtained equally unrestricted access to the unpublished correspondence, now in his possession, of Cole with Walpole. V. To Henry Charles Grosvenor Bedford, Esq., of the Admiralty, I am under deep obligation, for permission to make full use of Walpoles unpublished correspondence with his greatgrandfather and grandfather, Walpoles faithful Deputies in the Exchequer. To Mr...

ISBN-13: 9781408615980
ISBN-10: 1408615983
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 684
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