Don't miss Horace Walpole's "The Mysterious Mother" staged reading (May 2 5:30 pm), followed by talk-back session, and a mini-conference (May 3, 10 am - 4 pm). Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall. Details at https://t.co/pZnZ6ob5iJ and https://t.co/RBkaF6TNXF

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The clergyman with the telescope is guessed to be Horace Walpole, his chair being pushed over by Stephen Fox. Walpole was a and lecturer on optics.

However he had no known connections with this group, so the identification is still debatable!

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“Your Dryads must go into black gloves, Madam. Their father-in-law Lady Nature’s second husband, is dead! Mr Brown dropped down at his own door yesterday” wrote Horace Walpole to Lady Ossory on 7th February 1783. https://t.co/7Y8dALXHQx

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Would you build a special room on your house just to hold these drawings? Walpole did. Read about Lady Diana Beauclerk’s Drawings for “The Mysterious Mother” in this week's Horace Walpole at 300 blog post, Choice 11 from W.S. Lewis's "Rescuing Horace Walpole."

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George Haggerty’s talk on October 26, 5:30 pm (EST), "The Many Lives of Horace Walpole" will be streamed live at: https://t.co/wfufFMDtCr

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George Haggerty, UCR, to Yale to give lecture Oct 26 "The Many Lives of Horace Walpole" & "Queer Biography & the Archives" roundtable Oct 27

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For the tercentenary of Walpole’s birth, the LWL presents an interactive version of the Strawberry Hill song https://t.co/7nYNgEvWez

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Tiny Dragon Art Book Call For Submission -https://t.co/xqIgwSeROb
This one is done by Tyler Walpole

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Check out "From a Gothic Villa to a Gothic Pineapple?" blog post on "Horace Walpole at 300" by Peter N. Lindfield,
https://t.co/o0d4cjhqiW

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Nice day for a swim, come celebrate the Walpole Pool's 80th birthday! 2pm onwards

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"He sought the gloomiest shades as best suited to the pleasing melancholy..."
―Horace Walpole, died 1797

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Did you know that guardian was Horace Walpole, of the fairytale ? Find out more at next week's talk!

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LWL presents a Concert Sat. Nov. 5, 7:30 pm "The Grand Tour: The Walpole Way" by New Vintage Baroque. 75 Main St. https://t.co/PtvYIlS0fw

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It's alive! Our new website is at: https://t.co/hbKaRB25vN. Check it out & bookmark it. Comments? Questions? email us at walpole.edu

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Horace Walpole, man of letters, was born in 1717.

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"Serendipity" was coined by Horace Walpole in a letter to Horace Mann https://t.co/okxhD8VZW4

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Hey Yale Students! Got summer plans? Come work for the Lewis Walpole Library this summer! https://t.co/18alJNNItC

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