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Excerpt from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Vol. 8 of 16: Fourth Earl of Orford; 1783 1787 Do not think, my best Lord, that I forget or neglect the very kind and favourite invitations from Nuneham, but I weigh my own incapacities, and how likely I am to be an encumbrance. Theresult of my meditations is, that, as I can neither entirely resign my own satisfaction, nor purchase it with clogging you and Lady Harcourt, nor abstain from visiting the additional beauties of Nuneham, before they are in the sere and yellow leaf; I have determined to offer myself in the beginning of September. In the morning I can drive out with you; and as the days will then be short, I shall not be the cause of your being in the house, and consequently can enjoy your company without having it on my conscience to have shortened your walks, in which I am not able to join. If this scheme will inter fere with none of your Lordship's, you will be so good as to let me know your commands at your leisure. By your note to Mrs. Clive, I learn that Miss Fauquier is with you, and Mr. Whitehead, and so I hope they will be in September if you admit me. Where Mr. Mason is, I am ignorant, which is pretty much the state of my intelligence about everybody and everything, except my own calamities, which consist in having had a little gout, and in having a little more rheumatism, from having been able to bear not so much clothing as our ancestor's old jacket or fig leaf in the excessive heat, and from being overrun with all the languages of Babel, who come to see my house from morning to night. 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.