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The volume gathers together, and allows the reader to explore, the diverse experiences of a group of quite unconnected young, wealthy travellers as they made th
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Horace Walpole's Letters
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In looking closely at Horace Walpole's Correspondence, George E. Haggerty shows how these letters, when taken in aggregate, offer an astonishingly vivid account
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