Supplement to The Letters of Horace Walpole: Fourth Earl of OrfordClarendon Press, 1918 - Authors, English |
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add note Additional note-see Additions Additions and Corrections April Berkeley Square Burney Collated with text Countess of Ailesbury DEAR SIR Duchesse d'Aiguillon Duke extract apparently Extract printed-see Letter Favre full from original George Henry Seymour Conway honour Horace Walpole insert JOHN PINKERTON July June Lady Hervey Lady Mary last line letter is addressed letter to Conway letter to Lady letter to Mann letter to Montagu line 11 line 9 Lord Orford Lordship Lort Madame March March 16 Marquise du Deffand MARY BERRY Mary Churchill Messrs MISS MARY BERRY Mme du Deffand Monsieur note on letter numbered obedient humble servant obliged original in Waller Pinkerton MSS Pinkerton's Literary preserved see Letter printed from original printed from Pinkerton printed in full Queen Sept served see Letter Sotheby's sale catalogue Strawberry Hill Supplement text printed Waller Collection Walpole's Walpoliana William written
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