Rarities from Strawberry Hill : Made. Du Deffand to Horace Walpole subscribed "From the Elysian fields Rabutin de Sevigné" : Made. de Maintenon's holograph letter and a lock of hair given to Horace Walpole : original miniatures of Horace Walpole and Maria Walpole by Zincke, [1890-?]

A collection of portraits, clippings, playbills, Horace Walpole's bookplate (State 1), miniatures and letters (now shelved separately), and a lock of hair (also shelved separately) all related to Horace Walpole and his villa Strawberry Hill; all bound or laid in a volume. A brief one page biography of Horace Walpole printed with the incorrect year of birth, ends: "He died a martyr to the gout March 2, 1797"-- "Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, born in the year 1716. The younger son of Sir Robert Walpole ...". Laid in prints include a view "North front of Strawberry-Hill / Barlow del. et sculp." Portraits include: Horatio Earl of Orford; Thos. Kirgate; Duchesse de Choiseul and Madame la Marquise du Deffand; Madame la Marquise du Deffand; Françoise Marguerite de Sevigné, Comtesse de Grignan; Marie de Rabutin Chantal, Mme. de Sévigné; Miss Berry; Mme. de Maintenon; Madme. de Maintenon, from the original in the Versailles Gallery; Mary Magdalen, wife of Horatio Lord Walpole; Horatio Lord Walpole from an original by Vanloo at Strawberry Hill; Honble. Anne Damer from an original in the possession of the Right Honble. Genl. Conway; Field Marshall Conway; The Honble. Horace Walpole from a picture by Eckardt in the Collection at Strawberry Hill; Horace Walpole and Miss Walpole, two minatures by Zincke. Also mounted or laid in are the bookplates of Mrs. Damer and Horace Walpole. Two theatre programs, one dated November 1800, for a performance of The old Maid and Intriguing Chambermaid and the other dated November 1801 for a performance of Fashionable friends and Lover's quarrels

Also laid in where a lock of Mme de Maintenon's hair had been fixed (now removed): a letter in Paget Toynbee's hand describing Horace Walpole's two accounts of how he came to possession of a letter of Madame de Maintenon