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Thomas Gray to William Mason, 19 December 1757

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Letter ID: letters.0298

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 40
Addressee: Mason, William, 1724-1797 [i]
Addressee's age: 33
Mentioned: Butler, J., Mr [i]

Dates

Date of composition: 19 December 1757 [i]
Date (on letter): Dec: 19. 1757
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [Cambridge, United Kingdom] [i]

Content

Language: English
Incipit: Tho' I very well know the bland emollient saponaceous qualities both of...

Holding Institution

Location:
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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 Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W[illiam]. Mason. York: printed by A. Ward; and sold by J. Dodsley, London; and J. Todd, York, 1775, section iv, p. 258-259 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter CXVI, vol. iv, pp. 5-6 - view pages
  • 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 XXVII, pp. 112-115 - 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. CLVI, vol. i, pp. 372-375 - 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. 259, vol. ii, pp. 543-545 - view pages