Chapter XIII: Appendix

BOOKS PRINTED AT THE STRAWBERRY HILL PRESS.

⁂ The following list contains all the books mentioned in the _Description of the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole_, etc., 1784, together with those issued between that date and Walpole's death. It does _not_ include the several title-pages and labels which he printed from time to time, or the quatrains and verses purporting to be addressed by the Press to Lady Rochford, Lady Townshend, Madame de Boufflers, the Miss Berrys, and others. Nor does it comprise the pieces struck off by Mr. Kirgate, the printer, for the benefit of himself and his friends. On the other hand, all the works enumerated here are, with three exceptions, described from copies either in the possession of the present writer, or to be found in the British Museum and the Dyce and Forster Libraries at South Kensington.

1757.

Odes by Mr. Gray. [Greek: Phônanta synethoisi]--Pindar, Olymp. II. [Strawberry Hill Bookplate.] _Printed at Strawberry-Hill, for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, MDCCLVII._

Half-title, 'Odes by Mr. Gray. [Price one Shilling.]'; Title as above; Text, pp. 5-21. 4to. 1,000 copies printed. 'June 25th [1757], I erected a printing-press at my house at Strawberry Hill.' 'Aug. 8th, I published two Odes by Mr. Gray, the first production of my press' (_Short Notes_). 'And with what do you think we open? _Cedite, Romani Impressores_,--with nothing under _Graii Carmina_. I found him [Gray] in town last week: he had brought his two Odes to be printed. I snatched them out of Dodsley's hands' ... (_Walpole to Chute_, 12 July, 1757). 'I send you two copies (one for Dr. Cocchi) of a very honourable opening of my press,--two amazing Odes of Mr. Gray; they are Greek, they are Pindaric, they are sublime! consequently, I fear, a little obscure' (_Walpole to Mann_, 4 Aug., 1757). 'You are very particular, I can tell you, in liking Gray's Odes; but you must remember that the age likes Akenside, and did like Thomson! Can the same people like both?' (_Walpole to Montagu_, 25 Aug., 1757).

To Mr. Gray, on his Odes. [By David Garrick.]

Single leaf, containing six quatrains (24 lines). 4to. Only six copies are said to have been printed; but it is not improbable that there were more. There is a copy in the Dyce Collection at South Kensington.

A Journey into England. By Paul Hentzner, in the year M.D.XC.VIII. [Strawberry Hill Bookplate.] _Printed at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLVII._

Title, Dedication (2 leaves); 'Advertisement,' i-x; half-title; Latin and English Text on opposite pages, 1 to 103 (double numbers). Sm. 8vo. 220 copies printed. 'In Oct., 1757, was finished at my press an edition of Hentznerus, translated by Mr. Bentley, to which I wrote an advertisement. I dedicated it to the Society of Antiquaries, of which I am a member' (_Short Notes_). 'An edition of Hentznerus, with a version by Mr. Bentley, and a little preface of mine, were prepared [_i. e._, as the first issue of the press], but are to wait [for Gray's _Odes_]' (_Walpole to Chute_, 12 July, 1757).

1758.

A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, with Lists of their Works. _Dove, diavolo! Messer Ludovico, avete pigliato tante coglionerie?_ Card. d'Este, to Ariosto. Vol. i. [Strawberry Hill Bookplate.] _Printed at Strawberry-Hill. MDCCLVIII._

---- Vol. ii. [Strawberry Hill Bookplate.] _Printed at Strawberry-Hill. MDCCLVIII._

Vol. i.,--Title; Dedication of 2 leaves to Lord Hertford; Advertisement, pp. i-viii; half-title; Text, pp. 1-219, and unpaged Index. There is also a frontispiece engraved by Grignion. Vol. ii.,--Half-title; Title; Text, pp. 1-215, and unpaged Index. 8vo. 300 copies issued. A second edition, 'corrected and enlarged,' was printed in 1758 (but dated 1759), in two vols. 8vo., 'for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pallmall; and J. Graham in the Strand.' According to Baker (_Catalogue of Books, etc., printed at the Press at Strawberry Hill_ [1810]), 40 copies of a supplement or Postscript to the _Royal and Noble Authors_ were printed by Kirgate in 1786. 'In April, 1758, was finished the first impression of my "Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors," which I had written the preceding year in less than five months' (_Short Notes_). 'My book is marvellously in fashion, to my great astonishment. I did not expect so much truth and such notions of liberty would have made their fortune in this our day' (_Walpole to Montagu_, 4 May, 1758). 'Dec. 5th [1758] was published the second edition of my "Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors." Two thousand were printed, but _not_ at Strawberry Hill' (_Short Notes_). 'I have but two motives for offering you the accompanying trifle [_i. e._, the Postscript above referred to].... Coming from my press, I wish it may be added to your Strawberry editions. It is so far from being designed for the public that I have printed but forty copies' (_Walpole to Hannah More_, 1 Jan., 1787).

An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710. By Charles Lord Whitworth. [Strawberry Hill Bookplate.] _Printed at Strawberry-Hill. MDCCLVIII._

Title, 'Advertisement' pp. i-xxiv; Text, pp. 1-158; Errata, one page. Sm. 8vo. 700 copies printed. 'The beginning of October [1758] I published Lord Whitworth's account of Russia, to which I wrote the advertisement' (_Short Notes_). 'A book has been left at your ladyship's house; it is Lord Whitworth's Account of Russia' (_Walpole to Lady Hervey_, 17 Oct., 1758). Mr. (afterwards Lord) Whitworth was Ambassador to St. Petersburg in the reign of Peter the Great.

The Mistakes; or, the Happy Resentment. A Comedy. By the late Lord * * * * [Henry Hyde, Lord Hyde and Cornbury.] _London: Printed by S. Richardson, in the Year 1758._

Title; List of Subscribers, pp. xvi; Advertisement, Prologue, and _Dramatis Personæ_, 2 leaves; Text, 1-83; Epilogue unpaged. Baker gives the following particulars from the _Biographia Dramatica_ as to this book: 'The Author of this Piece was the learned, ingenious, and witty LORD CORNBURY, but it was never acted. He made a present of it to that great Actress, Mrs. PORTER, to make what Emolument she could by it. And that Lady, after his Death, published it by Subscription, at Five Shillings, each Book, which was so much patronized by the Nobility and Gentry that Three Thousand Copies were disposed of. Prefixed to it is a Preface, by Mr. HORACE WALPOLE, at whose Press at Strawberry-Hill it was printed.' Baker adds, 'Mr. Yardley, who when living, kept a Bookseller's Shop in New-Inn-Passage, confirmed this account, by asserting, that he assisted in printing it at that Press.' But Baker nevertheless prefixes an asterisk to the title, which implies that it was 'not printed for Mr. Walpole,' and this probably accounts for Richardson's name on the title-page. By the subscription list, the Hon. Horace Walpole took 21 copies, David Garrick, 38, and Mr. Samuel Richardson, of Salisbury Court, 4. All Walpole says is, 'About the same time [1758] Mrs. Porter published [for her benefit] Lord Hyde's play, to which I had written the advertisement' (_Short Notes_).

A Parallel; in the Manner of Plutarch: between a most celebrated Man of Florence; and One, scarce ever heard of, in England. By the Reverend Mr. Spence. '--_Parvis componere magna_'--Virgil. [Portrait in circle of Magliabecchi.] _Printed at Strawberry-Hill, by William Robinson; and Sold by Messieurs Dodsley, at Tully's-Head, Pall-Mall; for the Benefit of Mr. Hill. M.DCC.LVIII._

Title; Text, pp. 4-104. Sm. 8vo. 700 copies printed. '1759. Feb. 2nd. I published Mr. Spence's Parallel of Magliabecchi and Mr. Hill, a tailor of Buckingham; calculated to raise a little sum of money for the latter poor man. Six hundred copies were sold in a fortnight, and it was reprinted in London' (_Short Notes_). 'Mr. Spence's Magliabecchi is published to-day from Strawberry; I believe you saw it, and shall have it; but 'tis not worth sending you on purpose' (_Walpole to Chute_, 2 Feb., 1759).

Fugitive Pieces in Verse and Prose. _Pereunt et imputantur._ [Strawberry Hill Bookplate.] _Printed at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLVIII._

Title; Dedication and 'Table of Contents,' iii-vi; Text, 1-219. Sm. 8vo. 200 copies printed. 'In the summer of 1758, I printed some of my own Fugitive Pieces, and dedicated them to my cousin, General Conway' (_Short Notes_). 'March 17 [1759]. I began to distribute some copies of my "Fugitive Pieces," collected and printed together at Strawberry Hill, and dedicated to General Conway' (_ibid._). One of these, which is in the Forster Collection at South Kensington, went to Gray. 'This Book [says a MS. inscription] once belonged to Gray the Poet, and has his autograph on the Title-page. I [_i. e._, George Daniel, of Canonbury] bought it at Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson's Sale Rooms for £1. 19 on Thursday, 28 Augt. 1851, from the valuable collection of Mr. Penn of Stoke.'

1760.

Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill. _Strawberry-Hill, 1760._

Pp. 8. 8vo. [Lowndes.]

Catalogue of the Collection, of Pictures of the Duke of Devonshire, General Guise, and the late Sir Paul Methuen. _Strawberry-Hill, 1760._

Pp. 44. 8vo. 12 copies, printed on one side only. [Lowndes.]

M. Annæi Lucani Pharsalia cum Notis Hugonis Grotii, et Richardi Bentleii. _Multa sunt condonanda in opere postumo._ In Librum iv, Nota 641. [Emblematical vignette.] _Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLX._

Title, Dedication (by Richard Cumberland to Halifax), and Advertisement (_Ad Lectorem_), 3 leaves; Text, pp. 1-525. 4to. 500 copies printed. Cumberland took up the editing when Bentley the younger resigned it. 'I am just undertaking an edition of Lucan, my friend Mr. Bentley having in his possession his father's notes and emendations on the first seven books' (_Walpole to Zouch_, 9 Dec., 1758). 'I would not _alone_ undertake to correct the press; but I am so lucky as to live in the strictest friendship with Dr. Bentley's only son, who, to all the ornament of learning, has the amiable turn of mind, disposition, and easy wit' (_Walpole to Zouch_, 12 Jan., 1759). 'Lucan is in poor forwardness. I have been plagued with a succession of bad printers, and am not got beyond the fourth book. It will scarce appear before next winter' (_Walpole to Zouch_, 23 Dec., 1759). 'My Lucan is finished, but will not be published till after Christmas' (_Walpole to Zouch_, 27 Nov., 1760). 'I have delivered to your brother ... a Lucan, printed at Strawberry, which, I trust, you will think a handsome edition' (_Walpole to Mann_, 27 Jan., 1761).

1762.

Anecdotes of Painting in England; with some Account of the principal Artists; and incidental Notes on other Arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and now digested and published from his original MSS. By Mr. Horace Walpole. _Multa renascentur quæ jam cecidere._ Vol. I. [Device with Walpole's crest.] _Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII._

------ _Le sachant Anglois, je crus qu'il m'alloit parler d'edifices et de peintures._ Nouvelle Eloise, vol. i. p. 245. Vol. II. [Device with Walpole's crest.] _Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII._

------ Vol. III. (Motto of six lines from Prior's _Protogenes and Apelles_.) _Strawberry-Hill: Printed in the Year MDCCLXIII._

------ To which is added the History of the Modern Taste in Gardening. _The Glory of_ Lebanon _shall come unto thee, the Fir-tree, the Pine-tree, and the Box together, to beautify the Place of my Sanctuary, and I will make the Place of my Feet glorious_. Isaiah, lx. 13. Volume the Fourth and last. _Strawberry-Hill: Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXI._

Vol. i.,--Title, Dedication, Preface, pp. i-xiii; Contents; Text, pp. 1-168, with Appendix and Index unpaged. Vol. ii.,--Title; Text, pp. 1-158, with Appendix, Index, and 'Errata' unpaged; and 'Additional Lives to the First Edition of Anecdotes of Painting in England,' pp. 1-12. Vol. iii.,--Title; pp. 1-155, with Appendix and Index unpaged; and 'Additional Lives to the First Edition of Anecdotes of Painting in England,' pp. 1-4. Vol. iv.,--Title, Dedication, Advertisement (dated October 1, 1780), pp. i-x; Contents; Text, pp. 1-151 (dated August 12, 1770); 'Errata;' pp. x-52; Appendix of one leaf ('Prints by or after Hogarth, discovered since the Catalogue was finished'), and Index unpaged. The volumes are 4to., with many portraits and plates. 600 copies were printed. The fourth volume was in type in 1770, but not issued until Oct., 1780. It was dedicated to the Duke of Richmond,--Lady Hervey, to whom the three earlier volumes had been inscribed, having died in 1768. A second edition of the first three volumes was printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry Hill in 1765. 'Sept. 1st [1759]. I began to look over Mr. Vertue's MSS., which I bought last year for one hundred pounds, in order to compose the Lives of English Painters' (_Short Notes_). '1760, Jan. 1st. I began the Lives of English Artists, from Vertue's MSS. (that is, "Anecdotes of Painting," etc.)' (_ibid._). 'Aug. 14th. Finished the first volume of my "Anecdotes of Painting in England." Sept. 5th, began the second volume. Oct. 23d, finished the second volume' (_ibid._). '1761, Jan. 4th, began the third volume' (_ibid._). 'June 29th, resumed the third volume of my "Anecdotes of Painting," which I had laid aside after the first day' (_ibid._). 'Aug. 22nd, finished the third volume of my "Anecdotes of Painting"' (_ibid._). 'The "Anecdotes of Painting" have succeeded to the press: I have finished two volumes; but as there will at least be a third, I am not determined whether I shall not wait to publish the whole together. You will be surprised, I think, to see what a quantity of materials the industry of one man [Vertue] could amass!' (_Walpole to Zouch_, 27 Nov., 1760.) 'You drive your expectations much too fast, in thinking my "Anecdotes of Painting" are ready to appear, in demanding three volumes. You will see but _two_, and it will be February first' (_Walpole to Montagu_, 30 Dec., 1761). 'I am now publishing the third volume, and another of Engravers' (_Walpole to Dalrymple_, 31 Jan., 1764). 'I have advertised my long-delayed last volume of "Painters" to come out, and must be in town to distribute it' (_Walpole to Lady Ossory_, 23 Sept., 1780). 'I have left with Lord Harcourt for you my new old last volume of "Painters"' (_Walpole to Mason_, 13 Oct., 1780).

1763.

A Catalogue of Engravers, who have been born, or resided in England; digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the MSS. of Mr. George Vertue; to which is added an Account of the Life and Works of the latter. _And Art reflected Images to Art...._ Pope. _Strawberry-Hill: Printed in the Year MDCCLXIII._

Title; pp. 1-128, last page dated 'Oct. 10th, 1762;' 'Life of Mr. George Vertue' pp. 1-14; 'List of Vertue's Works,' pp. 1-20, last page dated 'Oct. 22d, 1762;' Index of Names of Engravers, unpaged. 4to. There are several portraits, including one of Vertue after Richardson. 'Aug. 2nd [1762], began the "Catalogue of Engravers." October 10th, finished it' (_Short Notes_). 'The volume of Engravers is printed off, and has been some time; I only wait for some of the plates' (_Walpole to Cole_, 8 Oct., 1763). 'I am now publishing the third volume [of the 'Anecdotes of Painting'], and another of "Engravers"' (_Walpole to Dalrymple_, 31 Jan., 1764).

1764.

Poems by Anna Chamber Countess Temple. [Plate of Strawberry Hill.] _Strawberry-Hill: Printed in the Year MDCCLXIV._

Title, Verses signed 'Horace Walpole, January 26th, 1764,' Text, 1-34 in all. 4to. 100 copies printed by Prat. 'I shall send you, too, Lady Temple's Poems' (_Walpole to Montagu_, 16 July, 1764).

The Magpie and her Brood, a Fable, from the Tales of Bonaventure des Periers, Valet de Chambre to the Queen of Navarre; addressed to Miss Hotham.

4 pp., containing 72 lines,--initialed 'H. W.' 4to. 'Oct. 15th, [1764] wrote the fable of "The Magpie and her Brood" for Miss [Henrietta] Hotham, then near eleven years old, great niece of Henrietta Hobart, Countess Dowager of Suffolk. It was taken from _Les Nouvelles Récréations de Bonaventure des Periers_, Valet-de-Chambre to the Queen of Navarre' (_Short Notes_).

The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, written by Himself. [Plate of Strawberry Hill.] _Strawberry-Hill: Printed by Prat in the Year MDCCLXIV._

Title, Dedication, and Advertisement, 5 leaves; Text, pp. 1-171. Folding plate portrait. 4to. 200 copies printed. '1763. Beginning of September wrote the Dedication and Preface to Lord Herbert's Life' (_Short Notes_). 'I have got a most delectable work to print, which I had great difficulty to obtain, and which I must use while I can have it. It is the life of the famous Lord Herbert of Cherbury' (_Letter to the Bishop of Carlisle_, 10 July, 1763). 'It will not be long before I have the pleasure of sending you by far the most curious and entertaining book that my press has produced.... It is the life of the famous Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and written by himself,--of the contents I will not anticipate one word' (_Letter to Mason_, 29 Dec., 1763). 'The thing most in fashion is my edition of Lord Herbert's Life; people are mad after it, I believe because only two hundred were printed' (_Letter to Montagu_, 16 Dec., 1764). 'This singular work was printed from the original MS. in 1764, at Strawberry-hill, and is perhaps the most extraordinary account that ever was given seriously by a wise man of himself' (Walpole, _Works_, 1798, i. 363).

1768.

Cornélie, Vestale. Tragédie. [By the President Hénault.] _Imprimée à Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXVIII._

Title; Dedication '_à Mons. Horace Walpole_,' dated '_Paris ce 27 Novembre, 1767_,' pp. iii-iv; 'Acteurs;' Text, 1-91. 8vo. 200 copies printed; 150 went to Paris. Kirgate printed it. 'My press is revived, and is printing a French play written by the old President Hénault. It was damned many years ago at Paris, and yet I think is better than some that have succeeded, and much better than any of _our_ modern tragedies. I print it to please the old man, as he was exceedingly kind to me at Paris; but I doubt whether he will live till it is finished. He is to have a hundred copies, and there are to be but an hundred more, of which you shall have one' (_Letter to Montagu_, 15 April, 1768). President Hénault died November, 1770, aged eighty-six.

The Mysterious Mother. A Tragedy. By Mr. Horace Walpole. _Sit mihi fas audita loqui!_ Virgil. _Printed at Strawberry-Hill: MDCCLXVIII._

Title, 'Errata,' 'Persons' (2 leaves); Text, pp. 1-120, with Postscript, pp. 1-10 (which see for origin of play). Sm. 8vo. 50 copies issued. _The Mysterious Mother_ is reprinted in Walpole's _Works_, 1798, i., pp. 37-129. 'March 15 [1768]. I finished a tragedy called "The Mysterious Mother," which I had begun Dec. 25, 1766' (_Short Notes_). 'I thank you for myself, not for my Play.... I accept with great thankfulness what you have voluntarily been so good as to do for me; and should the Mysterious Mother ever be performed when I am dead, it will owe to you its presentation' (_Walpole to Mason_, 11 May, 1769).

1769.

Poems by the Reverend Mr. Hoyland. _Printed at Strawberry Hill: MDCCLXIX._

Title, Advertisement [by Walpole], pp. i-iv; Text, 1-19. 8vo. 300 copies printed. In the British Museum is a copy which simply has 'Printed in the Year 1769.' 'I enclose a short Advertisement for Mr. Hoyland's poems. I mean by it to tempt people to a little more charity, and to soften to him, as much as I can, the humiliation of its being asked for him; if you approve it, it shall be prefixed to the edition' (_Walpole to Mason_, 5 April, 1769).

1770.

Reply to the Observations of the Rev. Dr. Milles, Dean of Exeter, and President of the Society of Antiquaries, on the Ward Robe Account.

Pp. 24. Six copies printed, dated 28 August, 1770 [Baker]. 'In the summer of this year [1770] wrote an answer to Dr. Milles' remarks on my "Richard the Third"' (_Short Notes_).

1772.

Copies of Seven Original Letters from King Edward VI. to Barnaby Fitzpatrick. _Strawberry-Hill._ _Printed_ in the Year _M.DCC.LXXII_.

Pp. viii-14. 4to. 200 copies printed. '1771. End of September, wrote the Advertisement to the "Letters of King Edward the Sixth"' (_Short Notes_). 'I have printed "King Edward's Letters," and will bring you a copy' (_Walpole to Mason_, 6 July, 1772).

Miscellaneous Antiquities; or, a Collection of Curious Papers: either republished from _scarce Tracts_, or now first printed from _original_ MSS. Number I. To be continued occasionally. _Invenies illic et festa domestica vobis. Sæpe tibi Pater est, sæpe legendus Avus._ Ovid. Fast. Lib. 1. _Strawberry-Hill: Printed by Thomas Kirgate, M.DCC.LXXII._

Title, 'Advertisement,' pp. i-iv; Text, 1-48. 4to. 500 copies printed. 'I have since begun a kind of Desiderata Curiosa, and intend to publish it in numbers, as I get materials; it is to be an Hospital of Foundlings; and though I shall not take in all that offer, there will be no enquiry into the nobility of the parents; nor shall I care how heterogeneous the brats are' (_Walpole to Mason_, 6 July, 1772). 'By that time too I shall have the first number of my "Miscellaneous Antiquities" ready. The first essay is only a republication of some tilts and tournaments' (_Walpole to Mason_, 21 July, 1772).

Miscellaneous Antiquities; or, a Collection of Curious Papers: either republished from _scarce Tracts_, or now first printed from _original_ MSS. Number II. To be continued occasionally. _Invenies illic et festa domestica vobis. Sæpe tibi Pater est, sæpe legendus Avus._ Ovid. Fast. Lib. i. _Strawberry-Hill: Printed by Thomas Kirgate_, M.DCC.LXXII.

Title and Text, pp. 1-62. 500 copies printed. 'In July [1772] wrote the "Life of Sir Thomas Wyat [the Elder]," No. II. of my edition of "Miscellaneous Antiquities"' (_Short Notes_).

Memoires du Comte de Grammont, par Monsieur le Comte Antoine Hamilton. Nouvelle Edition, augmentée de Notes & d'Eclaircissemens, necessaires, par M. Horace Walpole. _Des gens qui écrivent pour le Comte de Grammont, peuvent compter sur quelque indulgence._ V. l'Epitre prelim. p. xviii. _Imprimée à Strawberry-Hill, M.DCC.LXXII._

Title, Dedication, 'Avis de L'Editeur,' 'Avertissement,' 'Epitre à Monsieur le Comte de Grammont,' 'Table des Chapitres,' 'Errata,' pp. xxiv; Text, pp. 1-290: 'Table des personnes,' 3 pp. Portraits of Hamilton, Mdlle. d'Hamilton, and Philibert Comte de Grammont. 4to. 100 copies printed; 30 went to Paris. It was dedicated to Madame du Deffand, as follows: '_L'Editeur vous consacre cette Edition, comme un monument de son Amitié, de son Admiration, & de son Respect; à Vous, dont les Grâces, l'Esprit, & le Goût retracent au siecle présent le siecle de Louis quatorze & les agremens de l'Auteur de ces Mémoires._' 'I want to send you these [the _Miscellaneous Antiquities_] ... and a "Grammont," of which I have printed only a hundred copies, and which will be extremely scarce, as twenty-five copies are gone to France' (_Walpole to Cole_, 8 Jan., 1773).

1774.

A Description of the Villa of Horace Walpole. [Plate of Strawberry Hill.] A Description of the Villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill, near Twickenham. With an Inventory of the Furniture, Pictures, Curiosities, &c. _Strawberry-Hill: Printed by Thomas Kirgate_, M.DCC.LXXIV.

Two titles; Text, pp. 1-119. 4to. 100 copies printed, 6 on large paper. Many copies have the following: 'Appendix. Pictures and Curiosities added since the Catalogue was printed,' pp. 121-145; 'List of the Books printed at Strawberry-Hill,' unpaged; 'Additions since the Appendix,' pp. 149-152; 'More Additions,' pp. 153-158. Baker speaks of an earlier issue of 65 pp. which we have not met with. Lowndes (_Appendix to Bibliographer's Manual_, 1864, p. 239) states that it was said by Kirgate to have been used by the servants in showing the house, and differed entirely from the editions of 1774 and 1784.

1775.

To Mrs. Crewe. [Verses by Charles James Fox.] N.D.

Pp. 2. Single leaf. 4to. 300 copies printed. Walpole speaks of these in a letter to Mason dated 12 June, 1774; and he sends a copy of them to him, 27 May, 1775. Mrs. Crewe, the Amoret addressed, was the daughter of Fulke Greville, and the wife of J. Crewe. She was painted by Reynolds as an Alpine shepherdess.

Dorinda, a Town Eclogue. [By the Hon. Richard Fitzpatrick, brother of the Earl of Ossory.] [Plate of Strawberry Hill.] _Strawberry-Hill: Printed by Thomas Kirgate. M.DCC.LXXV._

Title; Text, 3-8. 4to. 300 copies printed. 'I shall send you soon Fitzpatrick's "Town Eclogue," from my own furnace. The verses are charmingly smooth and easy....' 'P.S. Here is the Eclogue' (_Letter to Mason_, 12 June, 1774).

1778.

The Sleep-Walker, a Comedy: in two Acts. Translated from the French [of Antoine de Ferriol, Comte de Pont de Veyle], in March, M.DCC.LXXVIII. [By Elizabeth Lady Craven, afterwards Margravine of Anspach.] _Strawberry-Hill: Printed by T. Kirgate, M.DCC.LXXVIII._

Title, Quatrain, Prologue, Epilogue, Persons, pp. i-viii; Text, 1-56. 8vo. 75 copies printed. The quatrain is by Walpole to Lady Craven, 'on her Translation of the Somnambule.' 'I will send ... for yourself a translation of a French play.... It is not for your reading, but as one of the Strawberry editions, and one of the rarest; for I have printed but seventy-five copies. It was to oblige Lady Craven, the translatress ...' (_Walpole to Cole_, 22 Aug., 1778).

1779.

A Letter to the Editor of the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton. _Strawberry-Hill: Printed by T. Kirgate_, M.DCC.LXXIX.

Half-title; Title; Text, pp. 1-55. The letter is dated at end: 'May 23, 1778.' 8vo. 200 copies printed. '1779. In the preceding autumn had written a defence of myself against the unjust aspersions in the Preface to the Miscellanies of Chatterton. Printed 200 copies at Strawberry Hill this January, and gave them away. It was much enlarged from what I had written in July' (_Short Notes_).

1780.

To the Lady Horatia Waldegrave, on the Death of the Duke of Ancaster. [Verses by Mr. Charles Miller.] N. D.

Pp. 3, dated at end 'A.D. 1779.' 4to. 150 copies printed. 'I enclose a copy of verses, which I have just printed at Strawberry, only a few copies, and which I hope you will think pretty. They were written three months ago by Mr. Charles Miller, brother of Sir John, on seeing Lady Horatia at Nuneham. The poor girl is better' (_Walpole to Lady Ossory_, 29 Jan., 1780). Lady Horatia Waldegrave was to have been married to the Duke of Ancaster, who died in 1779.

1781.

The Muse recalled, an Ode, occasioned by the Nuptials of Lord Viscount Althorp and Miss Lavinia Bingham, eldest daughter of Charles Lord Lucan, March vi., M.DCC.LXXXI. By William Jones, Esq. [afterwards Sir William Jones]. _Strawberry-Hill: Printed by Thomas Kirgate, M.DCC.LXXXI._

Title; pp. 1-8. 4to. 250 copies printed. There is a well-known portrait of Lavinia Bingham by Reynolds, in which she wears a straw hat with a blue ribbon.

A Letter from the Honourable Thomas Walpole, to the Governor and Committee of the Treasury of the Bank of England. _Strawberry-Hill: Printed by Thomas Kirgate, M.DCC.LXXXI._

Title, and pp. 16 (last blank). 4to. 120 copies printed.

1784.

A Description of the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex. With an Inventory of the Furniture, Pictures, Curiosities, &c. _Strawberry-Hill: Printed by Thomas Kirgate, M.DCC.LXXXIV._

Title; 'Preface.' i-iv; Text, pp. 1-88. 'Errata, etc.,' 'Appendix,' pp. 89-92; 'Curiosities added,' etc., 93-4; 'More Additions,' 95-6. 27 plates. 4to. 200 copies printed. 'The next time he [Sir Horace Mann's nephew] visits you, I may be able to send you a description of my _Galleria_,--I have long been preparing it, and it is almost finished,--with some prints, which, however, I doubt, will convey no very adequate idea of it' (_Walpole to Mann_, 30 Sept., 1784). 'In the list for which Lord Ossory asks, is the Description of this place; now, though printed, I have entirely kept it up [i. e., _held it back_], and mean to do so while I live' (_Walpole to Lady Ossory_, 15 Sept., 1787).

1785.

Hieroglyphic Tales. _Schah Baham ne comprenoit jamais bien que les choses absurdes & hors de toute vraisemblance._ Le Sopha, p. 5. _Strawberry-Hill: Printed by T. Kirgate, M.DCC.LXXXV._

Title; 'Preface,' iii-ix; Text, pp. 50; 'Postscript.' 8vo. Walpole's own MS. note in the Dyce example says, 'Only six copies of this were printed, besides the revised copy.' '1772. This year, the last, and sometime before, wrote some Hieroglyphic Tales. There are only five' (_Short Notes_). 'I have some strange things in my drawer, even wilder than the 'Castle of Otranto,' and called 'Hieroglyphic Tales;' but they were not written lately, nor in the gout, nor, whatever they may seem, written when I was out of my senses' (_Walpole to Cole_, 28 Jan., 1779), 'This [he is speaking of Darwin's _Botanic Garden_] is only the Second Part; for, like my King's eldest daughter in the 'Hieroglyphic Tales,' the First Part is not born yet: no matter' (_Walpole to the Miss Berrys_, 28 April, 1789). In 1822, the _Hieroglyphic Tales_ were reprinted at Newcastle for Emerson Charnley.

Essay on Modern Gardening, by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry Hill Bookplate.] Essai sur l'Art des Jardins Modernes, par M. Horace Walpole, traduit en François by M. le Duc de Nivernois, en MDCCLXXXIV. _Imprimé à Strawberry-Hill, par T. Kirgate_, MDCCLXXXV.

Two titles; English and French Text on opposite pages, 1-94. 4to. 400 copies printed. 'How may I send you a new book printed here?... It is the translation of my 'Essay on Modern Gardens' by the Duc de Nivernois.... You will find it a most beautiful piece of French, of the genuine French spoken by the Duc de la Rochefoucault and Madame de Sévigné, and not the metaphysical galimatias of La Harpe and Thomas, &c., which Madame du Deffand protested she did not understand. The versions of Milton and Pope are wonderfully exact and poetic and elegant, and the fidelity of the whole translation, extraordinary' (_Walpole to Lady Ossory_, 17 Sept., 1785). The original MS. of the Duc de Nivernois--'a most exquisite specimen of penmanship'--was among the papers at Strawberry.

1789.

Bishop Bonner's Ghost. [By Hannah More.] [Plate of Strawberry Hill.] _Strawberry-Hill: Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIX._

Title and argument, 2 leaves; Text, pp. 1-4. 4to. 96 copies printed, 2 on brown paper, one of which was at Strawberry. It was written when Hannah More ('my _imprimée_,' as Walpole calls her) was on a visit to Dr. Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, at his palace at Fulham, June, 1789. 'I will forgive all your enormities if you will let me print your poem. I like to filch a little immortality out of others, and the Strawberry press could never have a better opportunity' (_Walpole to Hannah More_, 23 June, 1789). 'The enclosed copy of verses pleased me so much, that, though not intended for publication, I prevailed on the authoress, Miss Hannah More, to allow me to take off a small number.' ... 'I have been disappointed of the completion of "Bonner's Ghost," by my rolling press being out of order, and was forced to send the whole impression to town to have the copper-plate taken off.... Kirgate has brought the whole impression, and I shall have the pleasure of sending your Ladyship this with a "Bonner's Ghost" to-morrow morning' (_Walpole to Lady Ossory_, 16-18 July, 1789).

The History of Alcidalis and Zelida. A tale of the Fourteenth Century. [By Vincent de Voiture.] _Printed at Strawberry-Hill. MDCCLXXXIX._

Title; Text, pp. 3-96. 8vo. This is a translation of Voiture's unfinished _Histoire d'Alcidalis et de Zelide_. (See _Nouvelles Oeuvres de Monsieur de Voiture. Nouvelle Edition. A Paris, Chez Louis Bilaine, au Palais, au second Pilier de la grand' Salle, à la Palme & au Grand Cesar_, MDCLXXII.) There is a copy in the Dyce Collection. Another was sold in 1823 with the books of John Trotter Brockett, in whose catalogue it was said to be 'surreptitiously printed.' Kirgate had a copy, although Baker does not mention it.

Doubtful Date.

Verses sent to Lady Charles Spencer [Mary Beauclerc, daughter of Lord Vere, and wife of Lord Charles Spencer] with a painted Taffety, occasioned by saying she was low in Pocket and could not buy a new Gown.

Single leaf. Baker says these were by Anna Chamber, Countess Temple.

Besides the above, Walpole printed at his press in 1770 vols. i. and ii. of a 4to edition of his works.

INDEX

A.

_Ædes Walpolianæ_, the, 75-77, 288.

Amelia, the Princess, 171, 228, 234.

American Colonies, the war with the, 252, 291.

_An Account of the Giants_, 189.

_Anecdotes of Painting_, 142, 150, 241, 295.

Ashe, Miss, 127-130.

Ashton, Thomas, 16-19, 58, 59.

B.

Balmerino, Lord, trial and execution of, 93-97.

Beauclerk, Lady Diana, 159, 161, 193, 243, 260, 286.

_Beauties, The_, 104.

Beauty Room, the, 211.

Benedict XIV., Pope, 50.

Bentley, Richard, 136, 137, 146, 148, 161, 214, 224.

Berry, the Misses Mary and Agnes, 233, 235, 244, 259-263, 265, 285,
286, 291.

Bland, Henry, 12.

Bologna, visited by Walpole, 42, 43.

Bracegirdle, Anne, 83.

Burnet, Bishop Gilbert, 16, 175.

Burney, Frances, 193, 257.

Byng, Admiral, 142, 143.

C.

_Castle of Otranto, The_, 161, 163, 164, 168, 192, 195.

_Catalogue of Engravers_, 155.

_Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors_, 142, 149-152.

_Catalogue of Strawberry Hill_, 262.

Charles X. (Comte d'Artois), 172.

Chartreuse, La Grande, visited by Walpole and Gray, 38.

Chartreux, Convent of the, described by Walpole, 34, 35.

Chatterton, Thomas, 196-200.

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 86, 131, 177;
his _Letters_ parodied by Walpole, 236.

Choiseul, Madame la Duchesse de, 174, 176, 177, 180, 212.

Christopher Inn, the, 17.

Chudleigh, Elizabeth, Duchess of Kingston, 230.

Churchill, Lady Mary (Maria), 49, 63, 67, 100.

Chute, John, 52, 68, 118, 134, 171, 208.

Clement XII., Pope, 45.

Clinton, Henry, Earl of Lincoln, 56.

Clive, Kitty, 83, 121, 133, 140, 143, 192;
_bon mot_ of, 181;
allusions to, 213, 217;
death of, 255.

Cocchi, Dr. Antonio, 56.

Coke, Lady Mary, 169.

Cole, William, 13, 19, 161, 206, 285.

Congreve, William, 83.

Conway, Henry, 12, 31, 35, 36, 38, 40, 82, 87, 91, 105, 108, 150,
182, 201.

Cope, Gen. Sir John, 89.

Crawford, James, 179.

Culloden Moor, the battle of, 91, 92.

Cumberland, William, Duke of, 19, 86, 91, 92, 99, 108, 120, 122,
171.

Cunningham, Peter, 10;
his account of a drive with Walpole, 227, 229, 231;
his specimens of Walpole's letters, 255;
quoted, 212, 231.

D.

Damer, Anna (Miss Conway), 203, 242, 270.

Deffand, Madame du (Marie de Vichy-Chamrond), 177, 212;
Walpole's first impression of, 177, 178;
her conquest of Walpole, 178;
Walpole's letter to Gray concerning, 178, 179;
her fondness for Walpole, 179, 180;
the episode of the snuff-box, 180;
Walpole's second visit to, 187, 188;
death of, 252;
Walpole's letters to, 248, 249;
Walpole's adieu to, 251;
will of, 252.

_Delenda est Oxonia_, 124.

Dodington, Bubb, 92, 120.

Dryden, John, imitated by Walpole, 60;
claimed as great-uncle by Catherine Shorter, 210.

E.

Easton Neston (Northamptonshire), 23.

_Epitaphium Vivi Auctoris_, 264.

Eton College, 11-17.

F.

Falkirk, the battle of, 91.

Fielding, Henry, 79, 83, 160, 161, 230, 285.

Fielding, William, 160.

Florence, visited by Walpole and Gray, 43-45.

Fontenoy, the battle of, 87, 88, 104.

Foote, Samuel, 173.

Forcalquier, Madame de, 174.

Fortescue, Lucy, 105.

Fox, Charles James, his verses on Mrs. Crewe, 240.

Francklin, Richard, 111, 123.

Fraser, Simon, Lord Lovat, 97.

Frederick, Prince of Wales. (_See_ Wales.)

Freethinking in France, 167, 170.

French court, presentation of Walpole at the, 171, 172.

G.

Garrick, David, 83, 140, 146, 186.

Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité, Madame de, 173, 257.

Geoffrin, Madame, 175, 182.

George I., Walpole's visit to, 8-10;
the story of the raven, 286.
(_See_ Reminiscences.)

George II., 63. (_See_ Reminiscences.)

George III. (_See_ Memoirs.)

Goldsmith, Oliver, 19, 32, 105, 143, 198, 242;
Walpole's contempt for, 238, 285.

Gordon Riots, the, 253.

Granby, Lord, 129, 131.

Gray, Thomas, at Eton, 16, 19, 22, 25;
travels with Walpole, 29-32;
Versailles described by, 32, 33;
at Rheims, 35;
at Lyons, 38;
at La Grande Chartreuse, 38;
in Italy, 40-44, 49, 50, 53, 57;
his misunderstanding with Walpole, 52-55;
subsequent reconciliation, 55, 135;
praises Walpole's verse, 59;
quoted, 25, 30-34, 37, 38, 51, 59, 83, 97, 105, 115, 134, 135, 137,
148, 149, 219;
resumes his intimacy with Walpole, 103, 106, 173;
visits Strawberry Hill, 135;
his indebtedness to Walpole, 135;
his Elegy published by Dodsley, 135;
the _Poemata-Grayo-Bentleiana_, 137;
publication of the _Odes_ at Strawberry Hill, 142-148;
detects the Rowley forgeries, 197;
portrait of, 213;
Walpole's relations with, 285.

Grenville, George, 290.

H.

Harrison, Audrey, Lady Townshend, 101, 156.

Hawkins, Miss, 160, 244;
her description of Walpole, 277-279.

Hénault, Charles-Jean-François, President, 177, 183, 188, 195, 212.

Hervey, Baron, 123;
said to be Walpole's father, 4.

Hervey, Lady, 120, 171, 175, 201, 224.

Hill, Robert, the learned tailor, 150.

_Historic Doubts on Richard III._, 190, 191, 237.

Hogarth, William, 69, 79, 161, 213, 222, 242.

Houghton, the seat of the Walpoles, 1, 24, 65, 66, 69, 71, 80, 81;
the Houghton pictures sold to Catherine of Russia, 69, 246, 247;
Walpole buried at, 268.

Hume, David, 167, 171, 181-185.

Hyde Park, robbers in, 125, 126.

I.

Inn, the Christopher, 16, 17.

_Inscription for the Neglected Column_, 61.

J.

Jennings, Frances, Duchess of Tyrconnell, anecdote of, 7;
head of, 222.

Jenyns, Soame, quoted, 127, 131.

Jephson, Capt. Robert, 237, 239.

Johnson, Samuel, 55, 84, 236, 285.

K.

Kendal, the Duchess of, 8, 228, 287.

Ker, Lord Robert, 91.

Kilmarnock, Earl, 92;
trial and execution of, 93-98.

King's College, Cambridge, 18-20, 28.

Kirgate, Thomas, 150, 195, 235.

L.

Lens, Bernard, 19.

_Lessons for the Day_, 75.

_Letter from Xo Ho_, 143, 144, 295.

Louis XVI. (Duc de Berry), 172.

Louis XVIII. (Comte de Provence), 172.

M.

Macaulay, Lord, 229;
reviews Lord Dover's edition of Walpole's letters to Mann, 271-273;
letters to Hannah Macaulay quoted, 271, 272;
Lady Holland irritated by, 272;
his opinion of Walpole, 273-275.

McLean, James, robs Walpole, 125, 126;
is imprisoned, 126;
becomes a fashionable lion, 126;
is executed, 126.

Mann, Sir Horace, 43, 44, 47, 61, 69, 201, 254;
death of, 255;
Walpole's affection for, 286.

Mason, Rev. William, 53, 197, 202.

_Memoirs of the Reign of King George III._, 189, 292.

Middleton, Dr. Conyers, 286;
praises Walpole's attainments, 57, 58.

Montagu, Lieut.-Gen. Charles, K. C. B., 14.

Montagu, Brig-Gen. Edward, 14.

Montagu, George, M. P., 14, 17, 21, 29, 187, 201, 286.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 4, 48, 133;
described by Walpole, 49-51;
quoted, 50, 102.

Mont Cenis, 40.

Moore, Edward, 131.

More, Hannah, 258, 264, 285.

Müntz (German artist), 138, 142, 146, 210, 279.

_Mysterious Mother, The_, 190-193;
Byron's praise of, 193;
printed at the Strawberry Hill Press, 195;
illustrated by Lady Di. Beauclerk, 243.

N.

_Nature will Prevail_, 239.

Neale, Betty, 130.

Neuhoff, Baron ('Theodore, King of Corsica'), 132, 142.

Nolkejumskoi. (_See_ Cumberland, William, Duke of.)

O.

Officina Arbuteana. (_See_ Strawberry Hill.)

Orford, George, third Earl of (nephew of Horace Walpole), 69, 141,
202, 245, 247, 263.

Orford, Horace, fourth Earl of. (_See_ Walpole, Horace.)

Orford, Robert, first Earl of. (_See_ Walpole, Sir Robert.)

Orford, Robert, second Earl of. (_See_ Walpole, Robert.)

Ossory, Lady, 202;
letters of Walpole to, 207, 233, 246, 247, 252, 260, 266.

P.

Paris, Walpole's first visit to, 31, 32;
state of society in, 166-168;
second visit to, 169, 173-181;
third visit to, 186, 187, 189;
fourth visit to, 249.

_Parish Register of Twickenham, The_, 158, 160, 161, 245.

Parodies by Walpole, 77, 236.

Patapan, 66.

Petersham, Lady Caroline, 127-130, 285.

Picture Gallery at Houghton, 69, 71, 246, 247.

Pinkerton, John, his _Walpoliana_ quoted, 3, 10, 84, 220, 258, 279,
280, 281;
a favourite of Walpole, 256;
his description of Walpole, 279-282.

Pomfret, Lady, 47-50, 101.

Pope, Alexander, 103, 109, 139, 216.

Preston Pans, the battle of, 89.

Prévost d'Exiles, M. l'Abbé Antoine-François, 31.

Prior, Matthew, criticised by Walpole, 76, 77.

Pulteney, William, Earl of Bath, 62, 64, 151, 228.

Q.

Quadruple Alliance, the, 14;
ended, 18, 19.

Queensberry, the Duke of, 231.

Quinault, Jeanne-Françoise, 32.

R.

Radnor, Lord, his Chinese summer-house, 119.

Ranelagh Gardens, the, 85, 86.

_Reminiscences of the Courts of George the I. and II._, written for
the Misses Berry, 262.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 241.

Richardson, Samuel, 167, 171.

Robinson, William, 146, 147, 150, 156.

Rochford, Lady, 156, 157.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 181, 182;
sham letter from Frederick the Great to, 182, 183;
anger of, 184;
his quarrel with Hume, 184.

S.

Saint-Cyr, Walpole's visit to, 188.

Saunderson, Professor Nicholas, 20.

Scott, Samuel, 139.

Scott, Sir Walter, his study of the _Castle of Otranto_, 164, 165.

Selwyn, George Augustus, 13, 138, 168, 231.

_Sermon on Painting, The_, 71-76.

Shenstone, William, 149.

Shirley, Lady Fanny, 160.

Shirley, the Hon. Sewallis, 102, 103, 202.

Shorter, Catherine (Lady Walpole), 3, 4, 210;
death of, 24;
burial of, 25;
Dryden claimed as great-uncle to, 210.

Shorter, Sir John, Lord Mayor of London, 3.

_Short Notes_, Walpole's, quoted, 5, 11, 17, 35, 56, 80, 124, 152,
189, 239.

Skerret, Maria, 4, 49, 63, 210.

Smollett, Tobias, 101, 105.

Spence, Professor Joseph, 50, 55, 56, 150.

Sterne, Laurence, 173.

Strawberry Hill (Twickenham), Walpole removes to, 86;
description of, 107-124, 146, 147, 208;
previous tenants of, 109, 110;
additions to, 111, 204, 205;
the Gothic castle at, 113-119;
views executed by Müntz, 138;
private printing-press at, 142, 145, 146;
described by William Robinson, 146-148;
works published at the Officina Arbuteana, 149-151 (_see_
Appendix), 152;
_Description of the Villa at_, 195, 201, 208;
fêtes at, 205, 206;
ground plan of the villa at, 208;
China Closet and China Room at, 210;
the Yellow Bedchamber (Beauty Room), 211;
Breakfast Room, 212, 213;
plan of principal floor, 212;
Green Closet, 213;
Library, 214;
Blue Bedchamber, 214;
Armoury, 214;
the Red Bedchamber, 216;
the Holbein Chamber, 216;
the Star Chamber, 217;
the Gallery, 204, 218;
the Round Tower, 220;
the Cabinet (Tribune), 220;
collection of rarities, 220, 221;
the Great North Bedchamber, 218, 221;
the Great Cloister, 223;
the Chapel, 223;
the Flower Garden, 112, 224;
Gothicism of the villa, 225, 226;
bequeathed to Mrs. Damer, 270;
subsequent disposal of, 270.

Stuart, Prince Charles Edward (the Chevalier), his descent on
Scotland, 88, 96;
temporary success of, 90, 91, 96;
escape of, 91.

Stuart, Lady Louisa, her _Introductory Anecdotes_ quoted, 14-16, 22,
23.

Suffolk, the Countess of (Mrs. Howard), 9, 122, 139, 157, 201.

Swift, Jonathan, 19, 103, 139.

T.

Townshend, Charles, Viscount, 6, 156.

Townshend, Lady. (_See_ Harrison, Audrey.)

Tragedy in England, Walpole's opinion of, 194, 195.

Triumvirate, the, 14.

Twickenham. (See Strawberry Hill.)

V.

Vane, Henry, Earl of Darlington, 128.

Vauxhall, 84, 128-131.

Versailles, visited by Walpole, 32, 171-173.

_Verses on the Suppression of the Late Rebellion_, 98-100.

Vertue, George, the engraver, 69, 70, 77, 154, 216.

Voltaire, François-Marie-Arouet de, 178, 190.

W.

Wales, Frederick, Prince of, 24, 61, 86, 87;
composes a _chanson_ on the battle of Fontenoy, 87;
wins £800 from Lord Granby, 131.

Walpol, Sir Henry de, 1.

Walpole, Dorothy, Lady Townshend, 6, 210.

Walpole, Sir Edward, Knight of the Bath, 2.

----, Sir Edward (brother of Horace), 100, 202, 203;
the daughters of, 203;
death of, 256.

----, George (third Earl of Orford), 141, 202, 245.

----, Horace (Horatio), his ancestry, 1-4;
scandal regarding his birth, 3, 4;
early childhood, 5-10;
his visit to George I., 9;
his appearance as a boy, 11;
his school-days at Eton, 11-17;
his scholarship, 12, 19, 20;
his companions at Eton, 13-16;
enters Lincoln's Inn, 16;
enters King's College, Cambridge, 18;
his university studies, 19, 20;
the 'triumvirate,' 19;
the 'quadruple alliance,' 18, 19;
literary productions at Cambridge, 24;
appointed Inspector of Imports and Exports, 27;
becomes Usher of the Exchequer, Controller of the Pipe, and Clerk
of the Estreats, 27, 28;
leaves college, 28;
travels with Gray, 29;
visits France, 30-39;
in Switzerland, 39;
crosses the Alps, 40;
in Italy, 41-56;
his description of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 49;
his misunderstanding with Gray, 52-55;
his illness in Florence, 55;
his return to England, 56;
becomes Member of Parliament for Callington, 56;
poetical _Epistle to Thomas Ashton_, 58, 59;
praised by Gray, 59;
his letters to Mann, 61, 65, 88;
his first speech in Parliament, 64;
his _Sermon on Painting_, 71-75;
the _Ædes Walpolianæ_, 75-77;
his parodies, 78, 236;
his paper against Lord Bath, 78;
his father's death, 79, 80;
receives legacy from his father, 80, 81;
his criticism of Mrs. Woffington and of Garrick, 83;
removes to Twickenham, 86;
his _Verses on the Suppression of the Late Rebellion_, 98, 99;
epilogue to _Tamerlane_, 98;
marriage of his sisters, 100;
his criticism of Lady Orford, 101, 102;
his contributions to _The Museum_, 103;
his poem, _The Beauties_, 104, 105;
resides at Windsor, 106;
his description of Strawberry Hill, 107-120, 147, 195, 205, 206,
227 (_see_ Strawberry Hill);
his papers in _The Remembrancer_, 124;
his tract, _Delenda est Oxonia_, 124;
is robbed in Hyde Park, 125, 126;
his account of Vauxhall, 128-131;
his papers in _The World_, 131;
his reconciliation with Gray, 134;
his admiration of Gray's poetry, 135-137;
is chosen Member of Parliament for Castle Rising, 141;
for Lynn, 142;
his _Castle of Otranto_, 142, 163, 168, 169;
publishes Gray's _Odes_, 142, 148;
his _Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors_, 142, 149, 151;
his first _Memoirs_, 142;
his _Letter from Xo Ho_, 143, 145, 295;
his other _Catalogues_, 145, 149, 151;
establishes the Officina Arbuteana, 145;
his publications, 149-151 (_see_ Appendix), 153, 154, 165;
his _Catalogue of Engravers_, 155;
his _Anecdotes of Painting_, 152, 156, 241, 243;
his occasional pieces (_The Magpie and her Brood_, _Dialogue between
two Great Ladies_, _The Garland_, _The Parish Register_), 157,
158, 245;
his second visit to Paris, 167-181;
is presented to the royal family, 171-173;
sham letter to Rousseau, 182;
visits Bath, 186;
his third visit to Paris, 187;
his _Account of the Giants_, 189;
begins his _Memoirs of the Reign of George III._, 189;
retires from Parliament, 189;
his letters to the _Public Advertiser_, 190;
his _Historic Doubts on Richard III._, 190, 191;
his tragedy, _The Mysterious Mother_, 191, 192, 195;
his relations with Chatterton, 196-200;
his fondness for his nieces, 203;
his correspondence, 235;
his minor writings, 236-239;
his _Nature will Prevail_, 239;
his fourth visit to Paris, 249;
his correspondence in French, 248;
his farewell to Madame du Deffand, 251, 252;
his acquaintance with Hannah More, 258;
his friendship with the Misses Berry, 259-263, 265, 286, 291;
his _Reminiscences_, 262;
his _Catalogue of Strawberry Hill_, 262;
succeeds his nephew as Earl of Orford, 263;
his _Epitaphium Vivi Auctoris_, 264;
his last letter to Lady Ossory, 267, 268;
his death and burial, 268;
disposal of his estate, 269, 270;
Lord Macaulay's criticism of, 271-276;
portraits and descriptions of, 276-278;
Pinkerton's reminiscences of, 280-282;
his character as a man, 284-287;
as a virtuoso, 288, 289;
as a politician, 290-292;
as an author, 293, 294.

---- of Walterton, Horatio, Baron, 6, 219.

----, Maria (Lady Waldegrave), 203, 205.

----, Lady Mary (Countess of Cholmondeley), 67, 100.

----, Reginald de, 1.

----, Sir Robert (first Earl of Orford), ancestry of, 1, 2;
first marriage of, 3;
second marriage of, 49;
decline of his political power, 61, 62;
resigns the premiership, 63;
is created Earl of Orford, 63;
intrigues against Pulteney, 64;
prevents his own disgrace, 64, 65;
death of, 78-80;
will of, 81.

----, Robert (second Earl of Orford), 85, 102, 129.

----, Lady Robert (Countess of Orford), 48, 101, 102, 202;
death of, 256.

----, Col. Robert, M. P., 2.

----, William, 3.

Walpoles of Houghton, pedigree of the, 1;
spelled Walpol, 1.

_Walpoliana_, Pinkerton's, 3, 10, 84, 256, 258, 279-282.

Walsingham, Melusina de Schulemberg, Countess of, 9.

Wesley, John, Walpole's description of, 186.

West, Richard, 15, 16, 103.

Whitehead, Paul, 139.

Wilkes, John, 173.

Williams, George James, 138, 168, 203.

Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, 13, 131.

William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, marries Maria Walpole, 203.

Woffington, Margaret, 83.

X.

_Xo Ho, Letter of_, 143, 144.

Y.

Yarmouth, the Countess of (Madame de Walmoden), 9.

Z.

Zouch, Rev. Henry, 196;
Walpole's letters to, quoted, 152-155, 285.

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