Volume 31, Number 7 · April 26, 1984

The King of Correspondence

By Irvin Ehrenpreis
The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence
edited by W.S. Lewis

Yale University Press, Vols. 44–48, $325.00 the set

Don't be put off by the opulence of the Yale edition of Horace Walpole's letters. Pull down volume eighteen, open it as if you were Titian approaching a canvas, and read about the Duke of Beaufort's private parts.



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