These are correspondences of 194 letters to Walpole from Conway and from his wife, Lady Ailesbury (as well as one from his sister Mrs. Harris); most of them printed here for the first time. The letters first published in this correspondence amplify and modify the accepted public image of Conway as a fearless soldier and perceptive statesman who saw that it was impossible to subjugate the American colonies.

The Yale Edition of different journal entries by Horace Walpole.

This volume includes Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Henry Seymour Conway, Lady Ailesbury, Lord And Lady Hertford, Lord Beauchamp, Henrietta Seymour Conway, Lord Henry, and Lord Hugh Seymour.

The publication of this four-volume edition of Horace Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of King George III completes the monumental Yale Walpole Edition that also includes 48 volumes of correspondence and three volumes of Memoirs of King George II.

Walpole's aim in Memoirs of the Reign of King George III was not to chronicle events year by year (October 1760 - February 1772), as he had done in Memoirs of King George II, but to defend what he called his "return to action" and to attack those who had thwarted it. Yet previous editors, first Sir Denis le Marchant...

Purchase one of 1st World Librarys Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The following work was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written does not appear. The principal incidents are such as were believed in the darkest ages of Christianity; but the language and conduct have nothing that savours of barbarism. The style is the purest Italian. If the story was...

This novel is the story of Conrad, son of Manfred of the house of Otranto. This thrilling tale abounds in adventure, suspense, and supernatural occurrences. Crammed with invention, entertainment, terror, and pathos, the novel was an immediate success and Walpole's own favorite among his numerous works. This work initiated a firestorm in this literary genre and was easily one of the most popular novels published in the late 18th and early 19th century.

"[This] edition is an indispensable addition to every Gothicist's book-shelf." -- Marie Mulvey-Roberts, University of the West of England, Bristol

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