Horace Walpole wrote extensively, producing fiction, nonfiction, verse, and thousands of letters covering a wide variety of subjects. He is pictured here in a 1757 print. Horace Walpole — the ...

Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library has digitized the complete 48 volumes of “The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence” (Yale University Press, 1937-1983). This new digital resource provides free ...

FEW writers can have fluctuated more in critical esteem than Horace Walpole. To his own age he was a brilliant essayist and historian (the eighteenth century in general knew nothing of his ...

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On January 28, 1754, a very important letter was sent to Horace Mann. Not the Horace Mann who was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, and remembered as the father of public education, but Sir Horace Mann ...

In June 1764 a 52-year-old man awoke from a strange dream. He was sleeping in his own house, recently radically rebuilt, in Twickenham by the Thames. In his sleep he had thought himself, he later ...

There is no sadder example of what can be lost when a collection is dispersed than the sale of the contents of Strawberry Hill, the pretty “gothick” castle on the banks of the Thames at Twickenham ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...