Abstract
The article delves into Horace Walpole's familiar letters to explore the intimate story of his self-narrated aging. Proving that Walpole was well-versed in eighteenth-century age decorum and, at least initially, ready to follow its prescriptions, the reading of his correspondence focuses on tracing the moments where the imagined old man, the purposefully constructed hero of Walpole's epistolary autofiction, steps aside to reveal an aged individual who is desperately trying to make sense of the complexity and the unpredictability of the final stages of his life.
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