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The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence edited by W. S.
Lewis.Sir Horace Mann, VIII, 9 Jan. 1775- 31 Dec. 1780
The biographers of Gray (and for a man who lived such an
uneventfullife he has had a great many) give much space to his
early letters to Walpole and their two friends of the 'Quadruple
Alliance' at Eton. This partiality is not hard to understand: the
letters of Gray, Walpole, West, and Ashton bring back the
friendships of one's own school days, or, rather, glorify them;
what other schoolboys ever put into letters so much humour,
criticism, sentiment, and affection? These precocious boys-of whom
one was to write the most beloved poem of the century and another
to give posterity the history of his time-admit us into their
company. As we read their letters we are mindful of what the
ministers of fate had in store for the writers, and the reading is
wistful and pleasant and sad.
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