WALPOLE, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797). Autograph letter signed ('Horace Walpole') to [Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford], Strawberry Hill, 5 June 1764, in brown ink, including a long postscript on the last page, 6 pages, folio , integral leaf. Provenance : Thomas Pitt to George Grenville; Grenville papers deposited at Stowe; sold by 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos to Edwin James (his attorney) who sold the letter to John Murray 1851; Sotheby's sale, 11 May 1970 (lot 231).
WALPOLE, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797). Autograph letter signed ('Horace Walpole') to [Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford], Strawberry Hill, 5 June 1764, in brown ink, including a long postscript on the last page, 6 pages, folio , integral leaf. Provenance : Thomas Pitt to George Grenville; Grenville papers deposited at Stowe; sold by 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos to Edwin James (his attorney) who sold the letter to John Murray 1851; Sotheby's sale, 11 May 1970 (lot 231). A long and impassioned defence of General [Henry Seymour] Conway, whose loyalty as a military commander has been impugned by George Grenville because of his principled stance against the Government: 'He has been as ill, as hardly, & as unjustly used as ever man was; & yet he will do whatever he thinks right, tho his behaviour may serve his bitterest enemies ... I was born free & will live and die so, in spite of patents & places. I may be ruined as Mr Conway has been, but I will preserve my honour inviolate ... You know the passion I have for Strawberry hill; but trust me at this moment I know I coud with pleasure see it sold, if reduced to it by suffering for my country and my principles'. Published in Letters of Horace Walpole , ed. W.S. Lewis and J. Riely (1980), vol. 40, pp 330-337. Walpole wrote to Conway the same day, enclosing a copy of the present letter.
WALPOLE, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797). Autograph letter signed ('Horace Walpole') to [Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford], Strawberry Hill, 5 June 1764, in brown ink, including a long postscript on the last page, 6 pages, folio , integral leaf. Provenance : Thomas Pitt to George Grenville; Grenville papers deposited at Stowe; sold by 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos to Edwin James (his attorney) who sold the letter to John Murray 1851; Sotheby's sale, 11 May 1970 (lot 231).
WALPOLE, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797). Autograph letter signed ('Horace Walpole') to [Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford], Strawberry Hill, 5 June 1764, in brown ink, including a long postscript on the last page, 6 pages, folio , integral leaf. Provenance : Thomas Pitt to George Grenville; Grenville papers deposited at Stowe; sold by 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos to Edwin James (his attorney) who sold the letter to John Murray 1851; Sotheby's sale, 11 May 1970 (lot 231). A long and impassioned defence of General [Henry Seymour] Conway, whose loyalty as a military commander has been impugned by George Grenville because of his principled stance against the Government: 'He has been as ill, as hardly, & as unjustly used as ever man was; & yet he will do whatever he thinks right, tho his behaviour may serve his bitterest enemies ... I was born free & will live and die so, in spite of patents & places. I may be ruined as Mr Conway has been, but I will preserve my honour inviolate ... You know the passion I have for Strawberry hill; but trust me at this moment I know I coud with pleasure see it sold, if reduced to it by suffering for my country and my principles'. Published in Letters of Horace Walpole , ed. W.S. Lewis and J. Riely (1980), vol. 40, pp 330-337. Walpole wrote to Conway the same day, enclosing a copy of the present letter.
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