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 Cobham, Hall, , Worcs. First printed in N&Q 1869, 4th ser., iii. 3. Reprinted, Toynbee iv. 81. The MS descended in the 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).