Horace Walpole collection, 1725-1797.

Creator:

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797

Physical Description:

ca. 15 linear feet (~30 boxes)

Related Links:

http://images.library.yale.edu/hwcorrespondence/

Notes:

Horace Walpole (1717-1797), author, politician, antiquarian, patron of the arts, and prolific letter writer. He was the youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, England's first prime minister and moved in a circle comprised of the most influential figures in both the social and political world of 18th century England. He wrote histories, fiction, plays, verse, essays, political pieces, art catalogues, and notebooks, notably: Anecdotes of painting in England and The catalogue of engravers who have been born, or resided in England; Catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland; Essay on modern gardening. He was the author of Historic doubts on the life and reign of King Richard the Third and the Memoirs of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George II. His fiction included the first gothic novel; The Castle of Otranto, the fantasy "Hieroglyphic tales" (1785); the incestuous play "Mysterious Mother" as well as his Fugitive pieces in verse and prose. He founded the Strawberry Hill Press which published Thomas Gray's Ode and spent the better part of his long life building an extensive collection of art and objects in his gothic revival home, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham which he described in extensive detail in two editions (1774 and 1784) of his catalogue Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole.
In English, with some French and Latin.
From the bequest of W.S. Lewis and Annie Burr Lewis, with subsequent additions by purchase, by the staff of the Lewis Walpole Library.
Additions to this collection will include accessions of manuscripts by Horace Walpole as well as letters to and from Horace Walpole.

Abstract:

The collection includes approximately 3000 letters to and from Horace Walpole as well as other manuscript materials by Horace Walpole, including his manuscript copy of Aedes Walpolianae and the Mysterious Mother, as well as Walpole's Commonplace Books, Books of Materials, and Miscellany.

Topics:

Art--Collectors and collecting--Great Britain
Authors, English--18th century
Authors, French--18th century
Clergy--Great Britain
Courts and courtiers--England
Legislators--Great Britain
Nobility--Great Britain
Poets, English--18th century

Topics:

France--Social life and customs--18th century
Great Britain--History--18th century
Great Britain--History--George II, 1727-1760
Great Britain--History--George III, 1760-1820
Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century
Great Britain--Politics and government--18th century
Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century

Topics:

Ashton, Thomas,--1716-1775
Berry, Agnes,--1764-1852
Berry, Mary,--1763-1852
Chatterton, Thomas,--1752-1770
Chute, John,--1701-1776
Cole, William,--1714-1782
Conway, Henry Seymour,--1721-1795
Dalrymple, David,--Sir,--1726-1792
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond,--marquise,--1697-1780
Gray, Thomas,--1716-1771
Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour,--Marquis of,--1743-1822
Mason, William,--1725-1797
Montagu, George,--ca. 1713-1780
More, Hannah,--1745-1833
Selwyn, George Augustus,--1719-1791
Seton, Barbara Cecilia
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Upper Ossory, Anne Liddell Fitzpatrick,--Countess of,--d. 1804
Walpole family
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797
Walpole, Robert,--Earl of Orford,--1676-1745
West, Richard,--1716-1742
Wiart, Jean François

Language:

English
English

Genre:

Correspondence
Verse

Format:

Image

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

LWL MSS
1
LWL MSS 1

Orbis Record:

10421363

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library
Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

oid pointer:

15813339

Citation:

The Horace Walpole Collection. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

OID:

15813338

PID:

digcoll:2781864

Number of Pages: 2