Excerpt from Select Letters of Horace Walpole Born in 1717, he grew to manhood during the long political supremacy of his father, the famous Sir Robert Walpole, and acquired instinctively the per sonal and party sentiments natural to a Whig of the Whigs. At Eton he made intimate friendships in a circle of clever and fashionable lads of his own sphere of society - scions of Society, in fact - for England then possessed but one, and in it were concentrated the fashion, the power, the wealth, and a good deal of the intellect of England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.