May 21, 2007

Item of the Day: Horace Walpole on the Death and Funeral of George II from Walpole’s Private Correspondence (1760)

Full Title:  Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. Now First Collected.  In Four Volumes.  vol. II. 1756-1764.  London:  Printed for Rodwell and Martin, Bond-Street; and Colburn and Co., Conduit-Street. 1820.
To the EARL of STRAFFORD.
Arlington-street, October 26, 1760.
My Dear Lord,
I beg your pardon for so long a silence in the late reign; I knew nothing [...]