Letter : [London], to Bertie Greathe[e]d, 1796 Feb 22.

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Letter : [London], to Bertie Greathe[e]d, 1796 Feb 22.

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Walpole writes to his friend, dramatist Bertie Greatheed Senior, praising in the most laudable terms four drawings made by Bertie Greatheed Junior illustrating four scenes in Walpole's The Castle of Otranto. He refers specifically to the portrayal of the ghost in the chapel and to Manfred in the last scene and praises the young man's work as showing "real genius."

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Yale University, Lewis Walpole Library

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