Letter from Horatio [Horace] Walpole to William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire

This material is held atThe Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth

Scope and Content

Concerns his request for copies of portraits of James V and his Queen; his gratitude to Lord John for showing him Hardwick; his preference for Chatsworth over Hardwick; an "Epitaph for Elizabeth of Hardwicke", the 4th Duke's great grandmother; a request for a clerk of James Paine's to sketch the inner court of Haddon for him, following his visit to Haddon. Written from Arlington Street. Signed: "HorWalpole".

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