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[Correspondence. Selections]

Title

Horace Walpole's correspondence with Thomas Gray, Richard West and Thomas Ashton / edited by W. S. Lewis, George L. Lam, and Charles H. Bennett.

Publication, distribution, etc.

New Haven : London : Yale University Press ; Oxford University Press, 1948 (1970 printing)

Physical description

2 v. in 1 : facsims. ; 26 cm.

Series statement

(The Yale edition Horace Walpole's correspondence ; 13-14)

Note

Vol. 2 has title: Horace Walpole's correspondence with Thomas Gray.

Note

"The material published here for the first time includes the complete text of Walpole's brief autobiography, 'Short notes of my life, ' 'The Nicoll affair, ' and various passages from Walpole's unpublished manuscripts--his notes on Ashton, Lady Pomfret, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and his parody of a Roman guide-book."

Note

Publisher's dark blue buckram; spine title stamped in gilt; with dust-jacket.

Formatted contents note

Contents: Walpole's short notes of his life -- Thomas Gray, Richard West Thomas Ashton, 1734-1742. -- Thomas Gray, 1745-1771.

Provenance

Booklabel of Eton College Library and booklabel "Purchased from the John Waynflete Carter Memorial Fund".

Provenance

Partial booklabel recording gift from David Babington-Smith, removed.

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United States New Haven.

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England London.

Identifier

B49902
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