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Thomas Gray to William Mason, 13 January 1758

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Letter ID: letters.0301

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 41
Addressee: Mason, William, 1724-1797 [i]
Addressee's age: 33

Dates

Date of composition: 13 January 1758 [i]
Date (on letter): Jan: 13. 1758
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Content

Language: English
Incipit: Why you make no more of writing an Ode, & throwing it into the fire,...

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 XXX, pp. 125-130 - 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. CLX, vol. ii, pp. 12-15 - view pages
  • Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray. Ed. with Introduction and Notes by Clark Sutherland Northup. Boston and London: D. C. Heath & Co., 1911, letter excerpt, pp. 197-200 - 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. 262, vol. ii, pp. 550-552 - view pages