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Thomas Gray to William Mason, [c. September 1762]

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Letter ID: letters.0415

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 45
Addressee: Mason, William, 1724-1797 [i]
Addressee's age: 38

Dates

Date of composition: [c. September 1762] [i]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Content

Language: English
Incipit: There is too much of the Muse here. the Muse's genuine wreath,...

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, pp. 137-140 - 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, appendix IV, vol. iii, pp. 344-348 - 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. 362, vol. ii, pp. 782-784 - view pages