Dancing Senator
Pat Rogers, 7 November 1985
Memoirs of King George II: Vols I, II and III
by Horace Walpole, edited by John Brooke.
Yale, 248 pp., £65, June 1985,0 300 03197 1 Show More
by Horace Walpole, edited by John Brooke.
Yale, 248 pp., £65, June 1985,
“... with Memoirs from the Declaration of the War with Spain’, begun in 1746, now first published by John Brooke as an appendix to his edition. The title is misleading, for these are annals of the Hanoverian accession, and don’t get anywhere within hailing distance of Jenkins Ear. The date is significant: Robert Walpole had died in 1745, and a year later ... ”