Letters from the Marquise Du Deffand to Horace Walpole, 1778
File
MS. Toynbee d. 13
Held at the Weston Library
Letters from the Marquise Du Deffand to Horace Walpole, written at her dictation mainly by her secretary J. F. Wiart, with a few pages in her hand.
Dates
- Creation: 1778
Extent
158 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Toynbee d. 13
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, no. 55419.
Bibliography
- The letters are printed in Horace Walpole's correspondence with Madame du Deffand and Wiart, ed. W. S. Lewis and W. H. Smith (Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, London etc., iii-viii, 1939).
Physical Facet
Bound by Maltby in half red morocco, 1902.
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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