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Dear Brand: You love laughing; there is a king dead; can you help coming to town? - Horace Walpole
Attribution: Horace Walpole (1717–1797), British author. Horace Walpole’s Miscellany 1786-1795, p. 22, ed. Lars E. Troide, Yale University Press (1978). copy of a missing note to Walpole’s old school friend Thomas Brand, written in Oct. 1760, inviting Brand to come to London to be amused by the pomp and political turmoil following the death of George II.

Categories: Author, Politics, Royalty

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