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WALPOLE, Horace, 1st Earl of Orford (1717-1797). Five autograph letters signed to the Earl of Strafford ('My best dear Lord'), n.p. [Strawberry Hill], 'Saturday, one o'clock in the morning', 'Feby 15th' n.y., and n.d. [circa 1760-1790], acknowledging a 'new mark of your goodness' (a ticket for an entertainment) on coming home 'undressed & undined', seeking Strafford's help in appeasing the Duchess of Norfolk whom he may have offended when she visited his printing-house, referring to Lady Strafford's health, ('quite possible that it was a very slight flurry') and writing in mortification when his own health prevents him from calling, 5 pages, 4°, one letter partly faded from waterstains, small splits at folds, contemporary annotations on versos, together with three letters addressed to Lord Strafford by (?) J. Walpole, (1737/38).
William Wentworth, 4th Earl of Strafford (1722-1791) was a friend and close neighbour of Horace Walpole, living at Twickenham House. He is frequently mentioned in Walpole's correspondence. Walpole set up the Strawberry Hill press in 1757, and evidently gave the Duchess of Norfolk (whom he referred to elsewhere as the Pope's 'great friend') a copy of one of his books with some reluctance when she visited him. 'It was impossible to avoid it & yet it is very likely that she will be out of humour with one or two passages in it ... I flatter myself that she will consider how natural it is, where a religion is established, to speak in favour of it'. (8)
William Wentworth, 4th Earl of Strafford (1722-1791) was a friend and close neighbour of Horace Walpole, living at Twickenham House. He is frequently mentioned in Walpole's correspondence. Walpole set up the Strawberry Hill press in 1757, and evidently gave the Duchess of Norfolk (whom he referred to elsewhere as the Pope's 'great friend') a copy of one of his books with some reluctance when she visited him. 'It was impossible to avoid it & yet it is very likely that she will be out of humour with one or two passages in it ... I flatter myself that she will consider how natural it is, where a religion is established, to speak in favour of it'. (8)