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Horace Walpole : letters to Lord Hertford

Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824: 'I am very much obliged to you for the specimen which you have sent me of Horace Walpole's letters to Lord Hertford, which I return. I have been very much amused by it, but [...] I believe Horace Walpole to have been as bad a man as ever lived; I cannot call him a violent party man, he had not virtue enough to be so; he was the most sensuous and selfish of mortals [comments further].'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool      

Horace Walpole : Memoirs of Lord Herbert of Cherbury

[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 August 1764:] 'Pray has Mrs M. got one of Mr Walpole's Memoirs of Lord Herbert [of Cherbury]? So few copies are dispersed, that I know Lord Chesterfield was not able to get one, and it is so amusing I wish you had it to wear away a rainy evening.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot      Print: Book

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