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William Mason to Thomas Gray, 23 September 1753

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Letter ID: letters.0210

Correspondents

Writer: Mason, William, 1724-1797 [i]
Writer's age: 29
Addressee: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Addressee's age: 36
Mentioned: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: 23 September 1753 [i]
Date (on letter): Sept. 23d - 53
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: Kingston-Upon-Hull, United Kingdom [i]
Address (on letter): Hull

Content

Language: English
Incipit: You have been rightly informd that I have lost a most affectionate Father....

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, New York Public Library [i], New York, NY, USA <http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
Availability: The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes

Print Versions

  • The Correspondence of Thomas Gray and William Mason, with Letters to the Rev. James Brown, D.D. Ed. by the Rev. John Mitford. London: Richard Bentley, 1853, letter V, pp. 18-21 - view pages
  • The Letters of Thomas Gray, including the correspondence of Gray and Mason, 3 vols. Ed. by Duncan C. Tovey. London: George Bell and Sons, 1900-12, letter no. CVIII, vol. i, pp. 237-239 - view pages
  • Correspondence of Thomas Gray, 3 vols. Ed. by the late Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley, with corrections and additions by H. W. Starr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971 [1st ed. 1935], letter no. 181, vol. i, pp. 381-383 - view pages