The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, Vol. 11 of 16

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, Vol. 11 of 16: Chronologically Arranged, and Edited With Notes and Indices; 1779-1781 IT would have been impossible for me, Madam, to'have met your Ladyship in town yesterday, had it been proper but when you were there but for one day, and that a nuptial one, I should have been unreasonable to expect you to bestow a twinkling on me. In fact, I was detained here; poor Lady Aylesbury was come to me all terror and distress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.