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William Mason to Thomas Gray, 8 January 1761

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Letter ID: letters.0379

Correspondents

Writer: Mason, William, 1724-1797 [i]
Writer's age: 36
Addressee: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Addressee's age: 44

Dates

Date of composition: 8 January 1761 [i]
Date (on letter): Jan: 8th 1761
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I thank you much for your Criticisms But at present shall not take...

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 LXII, pp. 240-244 - 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. CCXVI, vol. ii, pp. 188-191 - 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. 329, vol. ii, pp. 717-720 - view pages