Not being able to return to Strawberry Hill, where all my books and papers are, and my printer lying fallow, I want some short bills to print.  Have you any thing you wish printed?  I can either print a few to amuse ourselves, or, if very curious, and not too dry, could make a third number of Miscellaneous Antiquities.

I am not in any eagerness to see Mr. What-d’ye-call-him’s pamphlet against me; therefore pray give yourself no trouble to get it for me.  The specimens I have seen of his writing take off all edge from curiosity.  A print of Mr. Gray will be a real present.  Would it not be dreadful to be commended by an age that had not taste enough to admire his Odes?  Is not it too great a compliment to me to be abused too?  I am ashamed!  Indeed our antiquaries ought to like me.  I am but too much on a par with them.  Does not Mr. Henshaw come to London?  Is he a professor, or only a lover of engraving?  If the former, and he were to settle in town, I would willingly lend him heads to copy.  Adieu!

(84) The gentleman who had carried off so many of Mr. Cole’s prints.  He now fully remunerated Mr. Cole in a valuable present of books.

(85) Mr. Master’s pamphlet, printed at the expense of the Antiquarian Society in the second volume of the Archaeologia.

(86) “M`emoires du Comte de Grammont, nouvelle edition, augment`ee de Notes et Eclaircissemens n`ecessaires, par M. Horace Walpole.”  Strawberry Hill, 1772, 4to.  To the M`emoires was prefixed the following dedication to Madame du Deffand:—­ “L’Editeur vous Consacre cette edition, comme un monument de son amiti`e, de son admiration, et de son respect, a vous dont les gr`aces, l’esprit, et le gout retracent an si`ecle present le si`ecle de Louis XIV., et les agr`emens de l’auteur de ces Memoires.”

(87) Thomas Pownall, Esq. the antiquary, and a constant contributor to the Archaeologia.  Having been governor of South Carolina and other American colonies, he was always distinguished from his brother John, who was likewise an antiquary, by the title of Governor.-E.

Letter 52 To The Rev. Mr. Cole.  Arlington Street, Feb. 18, 1773. (page 77)

The most agreeable ingredient of your last, dear Sir, is the paragraph that tells me you shall be in town in April, when I depend on the pleasure of seeing you; but, to be certain, wish you would give me a few days’ law, an let me know, too, where you lodge.  Pray bring your books, though the continuation of the Miscellaneous Antiquities is uncertain.  I thought the affectation of loving veteran anecdotes was so vigorous, that I ventured to print five hundred copies., One, hundred and thirty only are sold.  I cannot afford to make the town perpetual presents; though I find people exceedingly eager to obtain them when I do; and if they will not buy them, it is a sign of such indifference, that I shall neither bestow