The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
Chapter 164
Strawberry Hill, Aug. 8, 1763. (page 232)
Sir, I have been rambling about the country, or should not so long have deferred to answer the favour of your letter. I thank you for the notices in it, and have profited of them. I am much obliged to you too for the drawings you intended me; but I have since had a letter from Mr. Churchill, and he does not mention them.