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Thomas Gray to Lawrence Brockett, [c. 1754]

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Mr Gray sends his Compliments to Mr Brocket. shall be extremely obliged to him, if he would make inquiry (when he has occasion to go into: Trin: Library) after the following old English Books

  • Paradise of dainty Devices. 1578. 4to & 1585
  • England's Helicon.... 4to
  • W: Webbe's Discourse of Eng. Poetrie. 1585. 4to
  • Fr: Meres Wit's Commonwealth 1598 Lond: & 1634
  • Sam: Daniel's Musa or Defence of Rhyme 16[11.] [8]vo
  • Steph: Hawes Pastime of Pleasure 1555. 4[to]
  • Gawen Douglas' Palace of Honour 1553 Lond: [15]79 Ed[in:]
  • Earl of Surrey's Ecclesiastes 1567 4to
  • —— 2d & 4th Books of the Æneid. 1557. 12mo
  • Gascoign's Works. 2 V: 4to. 1577. & 1587

If they should not be in the Library, Mr Gray believes that Professor Torriano could favour him with a sight of some of them for a few days. he will take all imaginable care of them.

Letter ID: letters.0214 (Source: TEI/XML)

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 37[?]
Addressee: Brockett, Lawrence, 1724-1768
Addressee's age: 29[?]

Dates

Date of composition: [c. 1754]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [Cambridge, United Kingdom]

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.; 1 page, 75 mm x 206 mm

Content

Language: English
Incipit: Mr Gray sends his Compliments to Mr Brocket. shall be extremely...
Mentioned: England's Helicon
Paradise of Dainty Devices
Cambridge
Daniel, Samuel
Douglas, Gawen
Gascoigne, George
Hawes, Stephen
Meres, Francis
Surrey, Earl of
Webbe, W.

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Add. MSS 32329, f. 2, Manuscripts collection, British Library , London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
Availability: The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes

Print Versions

  • Gray and his Friends: Letters and Relics, in great part hitherto unpublished. Ed. by Duncan C. Tovey. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1890, section IV, 190-191
  • 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. CLVII, vol. ii, 1-2
  • 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. 184*, vol. i, 390