"To my great surprise they seem really written from the heart, not for the honour of his head, and in truth do no great honour to the last, nor show much feeling in the first, except in wishing for his son's fine gentleman-hood."

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Original Language: English

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Horace Walpole on Chesterfield's Letters; letter to Rev. William Mason (9 April 1774), quoted in The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, and the Rev. William Mason, Now First Published from the Original Mss, Vol. I, ed. J. Mitford (1851), p. 141