Walpole, Horace, (1717-1797), 4th Earl of Orford, author collector antiquary MP

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Alternative name(s):	Horatius Walpole (Also known as)
Surname:	Walpole
Forenames:	Horace
Gender:	Male
Date:	1717-1797
Title:	4th Earl of Orford
Biography:	ODNB link for Walpole, Horace (1717-1797) 4th Earl of Orford, author collector antiquary MP
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P163762 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P29648 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Horace Walpole

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	c1776-97: corresp, journal, memoirs of George II-III etc	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development		NRA 28249 Waldegrave
2	papers	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Cholmondeley (Houghton)	NRA 7114 Walpole See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [22d]
3	corresp, literary MSS and papers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 5810-5874, 5952-5953, 9828, 23078, 23098, 23218-23219, 23234, 28800, 32559-32563, 32569, 34523, 37728, 47568, 47593; King's MS 305	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
4	his heavily annotated copies of Colley Cibber's Life and Lord Hardwicke's Walpoliana	The King's School, Canterbury	WALPOLE	NRA 15260
5	various printed works with his MS notes and additions	British Library, Modern English and Reader Services, Humanities and Social Sciences		See RC Alston, Books with manuscript, passim
6	1740-71: letters (46)	Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections	NeC	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
7	1753-96: letters (copies)	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Toynbee e 4	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
8	1781-95: letters (12)	Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, National Art Library	48 D 2	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
9	letters (c150) to the Berry sisters	The Morgan Library		See Walpole's Letters, Yale edn, vols 11-12
10	1759-72: letters (25) to Lady Mary Coke	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD24/5/104	NRA 29367 Stirling Home
11	1762-82: letters (176) from William Cole	Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, National Art Library	Forster Collection	NRA 38887 Forster
12	letters (184) from HS Conway	Lewis Walpole Library		NRA 22338 Walpole Library
13	1766-80: corresp with and notes on portraits by Mme Du Deffand	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Toynbee d 1-14; Fr c 4
14	1776-78: letters to Edward Gibbon	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 34886	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
15	1734-70: letters (103) from Thomas Gray	Cambridge University: Pembroke College Library and Archive	LC II 90	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
16	1746-74: corresp with Lord Holland	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 51404
17	1759-89: letters (39) from Michael Lort	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 12527
18	1740-86: corresp with Sir Horace Mann	Lewis Walpole Library		See Walpole's Letters, Yale edn, vols 17-27
19	letters (over 100) from William Mason	Lewis Walpole Library		See Walpole's Letters, Yale edn, vols 28-29
20	letters to George Montagu	Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, National Art Library	Forster Collection	NRA 38887 Forster
21	1736-70: corresp with George Montagu	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 70987-9	See Annual Return 1992
22	1794-96: corresp with William Roscoe (10 items)	Liverpool Record Office	Roscoe Papers 2831-2842	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
23	1761-66: letters to Lady Suffolk	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 22626	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
24	1748-56: letters (15) to Thomas Walpole	Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
25	1744-45: letters (12) to Sir CH Williams	Newport Central Library	M411 012	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
26	1751-95: letters (16); miscellanea	Huntington Library		See Guide to Literary MSS 1979
27	1747-1797: Strawberry Hill accounts, expenditure on furnishings etc	Chetham's Library	MUN.A.3.125	NRA 17002 Chetham's L