Horace Walpole and His World: Select Passages from His Letters
CHAPTER I.
Introduction--Birth and Parentage--Education--Appointments--Travels--Parliamentary Career--Retirement--Fortune--Strawberry Hill--Collections--Writings--Printing Press--Accession to Title--Death--Character--Political Conduct and Opinions--The Slave Trade--Strikes--Views of Literature--Friendships--Charities--Chatterton--Letters 1