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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq., [and Others]. Volume 1 of The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq., [and Others], George Montagu Volume 1 of “The” Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Henry Seymon Conway, William Cole, George Montagu |
| Author | Horace Walpole |
| Publisher | Henry Colburn, 1837 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 4 Jan 2007 |
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