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The Letters of Horace Walpole. Selected and Edited, with Introduction
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Scotland. By JOHN MACINTOSH, LL.D., Author of “The History of
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Transcriber’s note:
1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
2. Anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as
printed.