To CHARLES LYTTELTON, Thursday 4 August 1757
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96 To CHARLES LYTTELTON 4 AUGUST 1757 To CHARLES LYTTELTON, Thursday 4 August 1757 Printed from a photostat of the MS in the possession of Viscount Cobham, Hagley Hall, Stourbridge, Worcs. First printed in N&Q 1869, 4th ser., iii. 3. Reprinted, Toynbee iv. 81. The MS descended in the Lyttelton family to the present owner. Strawberry Hill, Aug. 4, 1757. Good Dean,1 I CANNOT send you our Odes2 by the post, they are too large: I shall leave two copies in Hill Street3 to be sent to Hagley;* I must beg you to desire my Lord5 to accept one; and if he likes the type and paper,6 I should hope that the next life he writes of Henry II (the present being I know engaged) he would let me print it.7 I am much obliged to Cambridge for the kind reflections it made you make on my subject; as I have had the pleasure of being with you at Hagley, I had rather owe them to that place, which I am sure must raise more agreeable accompaniments than any other. Excuse my haste, I write in all the hurry of a gros marchand. Yours ever HOR. WALPOLE 1. Lyttelton was dean of Exeter Cathe 5. Sir George Lyttelton had been dral 1748-62. created Bn Lyttelton in 1756. 2. Odes by Mr Gray, SH, 1757. HW 6. The type is Caslon; the paper is a states in his 'Journal of the Printing good 'trade paper' (Hazen, SH Bibl. 11, Office' that 1000 copies were printed by 26; Journal of the Printing-Office, pp. 95- 3 Aug. (Journal of the Printing-Office,6) . p. 3; Hazen, SH Bibl., 1973, pp. ix, 27). 7. For HW's opinion of this life when 3. That is, at the house of his brother, it finally appeared in four volumes, 1767- Lord Lyttelton, in London. 71, see ante 30 Sept. 1754, n. 5. The 4. Lord Lyttelton's seat near Stour printer was William Bowyer the younger bridge, Worcs. (post 31 Aug. 1757). .