Excerpt from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Vol. 8 of 16: Fourth Earl of Orford; 1783 1787 I have got a note from Mr. Conway. He says he finds on his list a Mr. Alderson recommended by Lady Holder nesse but that she applied before the conclusion of the war, when he thought it would rain ensigncies that he is now left with above an hundred engagements, and that the new plan of seconding two companies (i don't understand. Military Hebrew) with their ofi'icers on all the corps will increase his difficulty of performing them. This does not look as if your friend would be served soon. However, as he bids me tell him if Mr. Alderson is the person, as I Shall tell him it is within a letter, I do not despair. I write a line to Mr. Alderson to desire he will call on me 1n town on Friday and this I send to London, by a gentleman who dines with me, to Lord Harcourt, who will deliver it to you on the Birthday. 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.