Horace Walpole: A memoir With an appendix of books printed at the Strawberry Hill Press

CHAPTER VIII.

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Old Friends and New.--Walpole's Nieces.--Mrs. Damer.--Progress of Strawberry Hill.--Festivities and Later Improvements.--_A Description_, etc., 1774.--The House and Approaches.--Great Parlour, Waiting Room, China Room, and Yellow Bedchamber.--Breakfast Room.--Green Closet and Blue Bedchamber.--Armoury and Library.--Red Bed-chamber, Holbein Chamber, and Star Chamber.--Gallery.--Round Drawing Room and Tribune.--Great North Bed-chamber.--Great Cloister and Chapel.--Walpole on Strawberry.--Its Dampness.--A Drive from Twickenham to Piccadilly. 201