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Thomas Gray to William Mason, 5 October 1766

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Letter ID: letters.0483

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 49
Addressee: Mason, William, 1724-1797 [i]
Addressee's age: 42
Mentioned: Nicholls, Norton, c. 1742-1809 [i]
Stonhewer, Richard, 1728-1809 [i]
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: 5 October 1766 [i]
Date (on letter): 5 Oct: 1766
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: Cambridge, United Kingdom [i]
Address (on letter): P: Hall

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I was going to write to you, when I received your letter, and on the same subject....

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 XCVIII, pp. 359-362 - 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. CCLXXXVII, vol. iii, pp. 120-122 - 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. 427, vol. iii, pp. 938-940 - view pages