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Browse Letters Select a year to see the chronological list of letters to and from Walpole along with the name of Walpole’s correspondent. Click on the document date to view the image of the letter in the Yale Edition. OS (“old style”) and NS (“new style”). Letters preceding the change of calendar in 1752 are arranged in the sequence in which they were actually written, allowing eleven days’ difference between "new style" letters from the Continent, and “old style” letters from England. Missing letters are marked by an asterisk (*). Letters printed here for the first time in the Yale Edition are marked by a dagger (†). Letters printed in full for the first time are marked by a double dagger (‡). 1725    1733   1734   1735   1736   1737   1738   1739    1740   1741   1742   1743   1744   1745   1746   1747   1748   1749    1750   1751   1752   1753   1754   1755   1756   1757   1758   1759    1760   1761   1762   1763   1764   1765   1766   1767   1768   1769    1770   1771   1772   1773   1774   1775   1776   1777   1778   1779    1780   1781   1782   1783   1784   1785   1786   1787   1788   1789    1790   1791   1792   1793   1794   1795   1796   1797    no date      Document Date Correspondent   1739 ca 8 March OS† to Henry Seymour Conway 1739 24 March NS† from Henry Seymour Conway View Original Letter 1739 ca 4 April, O.S.* from Thomas Ashton 1739 ca 4 April, O.S.* to Richard West 1739 21 April, N.S. to Richard West 1739 ca April* from Richard West 1739 ca May from John Selwyn the younger 1739 ca 15 May, N.S. to Richard West 1739 18 June, N.S. to Richard West 1739 ? July* from Thomas Ashton 1739 21 June, O.S. from Richard West 1739 July to Thomas Ashton 1739 20 July, N.S. to Richard West 1739 ca 1 Sept., N.S. to Conyers Middleton View Original Letter 1739 28 Sept., N.S. to Richard West 1739 24 Sept., O.S. from Richard West View Original Letter 1739 15 Oct., O.S. from Richard West View Original Letter 1739 ca 8 Nov. NS* to Henry Seymour Conway 1739 11 Nov., N.S. to Richard West 1739 18 Nov. NS† from Henry Seymour Conway View Original Letter 1739 21 Nov. NS† to Lord Lincoln 1739 14 Dec., N.S. to Richard West 1739 13 Dec., O.S. from Richard West   Back to top