Horace Walpole and His World: Select Passages from His Letters

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Introduction--Birth and Parentage--Education--Appointments--Travels--Parliamentary Career--Retirement--Fortune--Strawberry Hill--Collections--Writings--Printing Press--Accession to Title--Death--Character--Political Conduct and Opinions--The Slave Trade--Strikes--Views of Literature--Friendships--Charities--Chatterton--Letters 1 Country Life--Ranelagh Gardens--The Rebel Lords--The Earthquake--A Frolic at Vauxhall--Capture of a Housebreaker--Strawberry Hill--The Beautiful Gunnings--Sterne 33…

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