BIB_ID
333472
Accession number
MA 497.34
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Display Date
1793 June 26.
Credit line
Acquired before 1922.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 20.1 cm
Notes
Added to this volume in 1922; removed from Propert's "History of Miniature Art."
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "the Reverend Mr. Beloe / at Emanuel College / Westminster;" over the address Walpole has added "Isleworth june the twenty sixth 1793."
Part of a collection of the correspondence of Horace Walpole to various recipients including Henry Seymour Conway, Benjamin Ibbot and Horace Mann and with a small number of miscellaneous writings and copies of the writings of others. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Walpole has signed the letter "Orford."
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "the Reverend Mr. Beloe / at Emanuel College / Westminster;" over the address Walpole has added "Isleworth june the twenty sixth 1793."
Part of a collection of the correspondence of Horace Walpole to various recipients including Henry Seymour Conway, Benjamin Ibbot and Horace Mann and with a small number of miscellaneous writings and copies of the writings of others. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Walpole has signed the letter "Orford."
Provenance
Acquired before 1922.
Summary
Commenting on a new publication, "The British Critic" and his approval of it; saying that "....the world does not supply readers enough for the daily mass of new publications: it must expect to be diverted, I mean at times, for it has not quick digestion enough to feed long on solid food only. Nay, men, who have sense to comprehend sound reasons, are too few and too sedate to trumpet the reputation of grave authors; and by pronouncing just and temperate judgments (for such men do not exaggerate) they excite no curiosity in the herd of idle readers. The deepest works that have become standards, owe their characters to length of time; but periodic publications must make rapid impression, or are shoved aside by their own tribe, and to acquire popularity , must gain noisy voices to their side."
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