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CONTENTS. John Chute, his letter is dated from Amiens, 
Nowis:— ayy © os Ri se eg ves July 9.1771, beginning, “I am got no farther 
unpublished Letter of Horace Walpole, by S. Ha - 27% 5) a 5 
Pak Avsiclia Sinart, by. Cole - " - 374 | yet;” and he returned to Arlington Sti eet, Sep- 
The Name Martel, by W. Robson - - - 275 | tember 6. 1771, having arrived at Paris on the 
Queries :— 10th of July, and quitted it on the 2nd of Septem- 
Query as to Junius, by J. Sudlow, Esq. - - - 275 4 eh 
Mea varie mene works i E ae ber. I notice the dates, as they indicate the rate 
Minor Queries : — MS. Book of Hours— Bess of Hard- of travelling in some degree at that period. The 
wick — Cesar’s Wife -- Minar’s Books of Antiquities = 1 >) ae 
— Proverb against Physicians Compendyous Olde Query ne whom wae = addressed % There is 
Treatyse — Topography of Foreign Printing Presses nothing on the original to indicate the person. 
— Cromwell's Estates—Depinges - - - 26) The letter is of no great importance, except as it 
ReEpwies : — P ; i) 
Origin of Jew's-harp, by E. F. Rimbault, LL.D. See shows that Walpole, under certain conditions of 
Eltrie’s Colloguy, by S. W. Singer . A 278 being, was more earnest and sincere than perhaps 
eheting an ehetours - - - - 27 j j ‘ . is 4 
ee Marcia - ji b ‘ - 346 | Was in his nature, er was gener ally his wont. 
Aymeraity of Cosstien Mae te Chaucer’s Night Sui SPENCER Hatu, 
arm, by Rev. D. Roc = = : = Atheneum, Feb. 25. 1850. 
Replies to Minor Queries ; — By Hook or by Crook, Po- ; > £ 
kership, &c.—Golden Frog — Madoc — Twysden ‘¢ Paris, July 28, 1771. 
MSS. — Royal Genealogies — Astle’s MSS.— Dr. Hugh ‘¢ Dear St 
Todd’s MS3.—Sir W. Ryder—Scole Inn — Kille- re ‘ ° 
grew Family a Pavoise of the Black Prince — Welsh I have received no letter from my brother, 
mbassador — Pheenix, by Lactantius — Catsup — ° 
ek Monee Delite of Anglo-Saxon — and consequently have no answer to make to him, 
Purtenica — Pandoxare, &c. = = : - 281 | I shall only say that after entering into a solemn 
MiscutLastes = 5 wy engagement with me, that we shoud dispose of the 
se of Monosyllables -—To endeavour oneself—Evelyn’s g i i ; 
Sculptura — William Baxter — Derivation of ‘“* Ayon”’ pl ages alternately, haan scarce think him SEMIOGS; 
— Warton and Heinsius, &c.  - e - 2935 | when he tells you he has made an entirely new 
Nores on Books, CaTatoavgs, SAues, &c. arrangement for ALL the places, expects I shoud 
Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 287 | concur in it; and after that, is so good as to pro- 
Notices to Correspondents - - - - - 287 scalh ill di f ith 5 
Advertisements = 3 p é E, - 288 | mise he wi ispose of no more without consulting 
UNPUBLISHED LETTER OF HORACE WALPOLE. 
T have the pleasure of inclosing to you (I be- 
lieve) an unpublished letter of Horace Walpole’s. 
It was found among the papers of the late William 
Parsons, one of the Della Cruscan poets. That it 
is genuine I have no doubt. The handwriting is 
precisely similar to a note sent with a copy of the 
Mysterious Mother to Mr. Parsons, in which 
Horace Walpole writes, “he is unwilling to part 
with a copy without protesting against his own 
want of judgment in selecting so disgusting a sub- 
ject; the absurdity of which he believes makes 
many faults of which he is sensible in the execution 
overlooked.” It is also guaranteed by its date,— 
“Paris, July 28. 1771.” By reference to his cor- 
respondence with Sir H. Mann (vol. ii. p 163), we 
find a letter dated July 6. 1771, in which he writes, 
“Tam not gone; I do go to-morrow ;” and in his 
General Correspondence, vol. v. p. 303., writing to 
me. If He is so absolutely master of all, my con- 
currence is not necessary, and I will give none. If 
he chuses to dispose of the places without me, That 
matter with others more important, must be re- 
gulated in another manner,—and it is time they 
shoud, when no agreement is kept with me, and I 
find objections made which upon the fullest dis- 
cussion and after allowance of the force of my 
arguments and right, had been given up twenty 
years ago. 
“ With regard to your letter, S*, some parts of 
it are, I protest, totally unintelligible to me. Others, 
which I think I do understand, require a much 
fuller answer than I have time to give now, as the 
post goes out to-morrow morning. That answer 
will contain matter not at all fit for the Post, and 
which I am sure you woud not wish shoud be 
handled there; for which reason I shall defer it, 
till I can give my answer at length into your own 
hands. It will, T believe, surprize both you and 
my brother; and show how unkindly I have been 
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