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| | Horace Walpole |
 | | Horace (or Horatio) Walpole, English politician and man of letters, 4th Earl of Orford -- a title to which he only succeeded at the end of his life, and by which he is little known -- was born in Arlington Street, London, on the 24th of September 1717. |
 | | He was the youngest of the five children of the 1st Earl of Orford (Sir Robert Walpole) by Catherine Shorter, but by some of the scandal-mongers of a later age, Carr, Lord Hervey, half-brother of John, Lord Hervey, afterwards second Earl of Bristol, has been called his father. |
 | | The Castle of Otranto, purporting to be a story translated by William Marshal, gent., from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, canon of the church of St. Nicholas at Otranto, was often reprinted in England, and was translated into both French and Italian. |
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