Excerpt from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, Vol. 8 of 16: Chronologically Arranged and Edited With Notes and Indices; 1771-1774 Princes Amelia, who is not of this age neither, was very near dying two days ago of a. Bilious fever. Well, as we have closed a long period, pray send me my letters to the end of last year. I believe I have mentioned it once or twice. I should like to have them all together, for they are a kind of history - only think of eight-and twenty years! 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.