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The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. With George Selwyn, Lord Lincoln, Sir Charles Handbury Williams, Henry Fox, and Richard Edgcumbe.
Horace Walpole
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Hardback. Editor(s): Smith, Robert A. Series: Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. Num Pages: illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 3JF; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 260 x 182 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1300.
These two volumes of Horace Walpole's correspondence illustrate the breadth and variety of Walpole's friendships. The rakes, wits, and politicians of Volume 30 are the intimates of his younger days as an active member of the Young Club at White's and of Parliament, although correspondences with George Selwyn and Henry Fox continue until their deaths. Walpole's subjects in these letters are politics and gossip, occasionally dispensed with asperity and witty allusions to entertain Sir Charles Williams and Lord Lincoln. Volume 31 shows Walpole the attendant of wise and spirited dowagers and later, of pretty young women with good minds and ... Read more
These two volumes of Horace Walpole's correspondence illustrate the breadth and variety of Walpole's friendships. The rakes, wits, and politicians of Volume 30 are the intimates of his younger days as an active member of the Young Club at White's and of Parliament, although correspondences with George Selwyn and Henry Fox continue until their deaths. Walpole's subjects in these letters are politics and gossip, occasionally dispensed with asperity and witty allusions to entertain Sir Charles Williams and Lord Lincoln. Volume 31 shows Walpole the attendant of wise and spirited dowagers and later, of pretty young women with good minds and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1977
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Condition
New
Series
Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300007121
SKU
V9780300007121
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