and Queen Caroline.] The next important _memoires pour servir_ were brought under Mr.
Murray's notice by Lord Holland, in the following letter: _Lord Holland to John Murray_.
HOLLAND HOUSE, _November_ 1820.
SIR, I wrote a letter to you last week which by some accident Lord Lauderdale, who had taken charge of it, has mislaid.

The object of it was to request you to call here some morning, and to let me know the hour by a line by two-penny post.

I am authorized to dispose of two historical works, the one a short but admirably written and interesting memoir of the late Lord Waldegrave, who was a favourite of George II., and governor of George III.

when Prince of Wales.

The second consists of three close-written volumes of "Memoirs by Horace Walpole" (afterwards Lord Orford), which comprise the last nine years of George II.'s reign.
I am anxious to give you the refusal of them, as I hear you have already expressed a wish to publish anything of this kind written by Horace Walpole, and had indirectly conveyed that wish to Lord Waldegrave, to whom these and many other MSS.