Pitt, Pulteney, Pelham, Grenville, and Horace Walpole, seem to me almost to justify the magnificence of the quarto; though, in truth, all their epistles are, in its narrowest sense, _familiar_, and treat chiefly of tittle-tattle.
Decide, however, on your own view of your interests, only recollect that these papers are not to cost you more than "Belshazzar," [Footnote: Mr.
Milman's poem, for which Mr.Murray paid 500 guineas.] which I take to be of about the intrinsic value of the _writings on the walls_, and not a third of what you have given Mr.Crayon for his portrait of Squire Bracebridge.
2nd.

Do you intend to have any portraits?
One of Lady Suffolk is almost indispensable, and would be enough.

There are two of her at Strawberry Hill; one, I think, a print, and neither, if I forget not, very good.
There is also a print, an unassuming one, in Walpole's works, but a good artist would make something out of any of these, if even we can get nothing better to make our copy from.

If you were to increase your number of portraits, I would add the Duchess of Queensberry, from a picture at Dalkeith which is alluded to in the letters; Lady Hervey and her beautiful friend, Mary Bellenden.

They are in Walpole's works; Lady Hervey rather mawkish, but the Bellenden charming.