Letters, 1734-1771

• Correspondence with Algarotti, Francesco

  • Archive Work ID: letters.algarotti_francesco
  • Correspondent: Algarotti, Francesco
  • Language: English
  • Date Range: 1763-
  • Summary: 2 letters (1 from Gray, 1 to Gray), dated between 1763 and 1763.

  1 Manuscript:

  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0422 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Algarotti, Francesco to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 24 April 1763
    • Language: Italian
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 369, vol. ii, 799; Memoirs (1775), letter xlvi, section iv, 302; Works (1816), section IV, letter CVII, vol. ii, 412; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter CXVIII, vol. iv, 8; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter CXVIII, vol. ii, 74-75; Works (1814), section IV, letter XLVI, vol. i, 404; Lettere Varie, parte seconda (1794), vol. 10, 160f.
    • Contents: Incipit: "Sono stato lungo tempo in dubbio se un dilettante, quale io sono, dovea mandare". Sent from Pisa. Dateline: "24 Aprile 1763". Address: "Pisa".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  
  

• Correspondence with Brown, James

  • Archive Work ID: letters.brown_james
  • Correspondent: Brown, James
  • Language: English
  • Date Range: 1753-1771
  • Summary: 43 letters (43 from Gray), dated between 1753 and 1771.

  3 Manuscripts:

  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0344 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
    • Date: 8 August 1759
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 299, vol. ii, 632-633; Correspondence (1853), letter XLVI, 186-188; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXC, vol. ii, 94-96
    • Contents: Incipit: "The season for triumph is at last come; I mean for our Allies,". Sent from London. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Aug: 8. 1759". Address: "At M^r Jauncey's, Southampton-Row, Bloomsbury". Envelope (front): "To the Revd James Brown M:A: President of Pembroke-Hall Cambridge" Postmark: "8 AV".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0345 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
    • Date: 11 August 1759
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 299*, vol. ii, 634-636; Correspondence (1853), letter XLVII, 188-192; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXCI, vol. ii, 96-99
    • Contents: Incipit: "I retract a part of my yesterday's intelligence, having to day had an". Sent from [London]. Dateline: "Saturday.¹¹ Aug. 1759".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0400 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
    • Date: [7 November 1761]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 349, vol. ii, 763-764; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXII, 279-283; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXXXIII, vol. ii, 241-244
    • Contents: Incipit: "Your letter has rejoiced me (as you will easily believe) & agreeably". Sent from [London]. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Nov: .. Sat: 1761". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Brown, President of Pembroke Hall Cambridge" Postmark: "7 NO".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  
  

• Correspondence with Mason, William

  • Archive Work ID: letters.mason_william
  • Correspondent: Mason, William
  • Language: English
  • Date Range: 1751-1771
  • Summary: 99 letters (75 from Gray, 24 to Gray), dated between 1751 and 1771.

  98 Manuscripts:

  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0209 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [21 September 1753]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 180, vol. i, 380-381; Correspondence (1853), letter IV, 16-17; Memoirs (1775), letter xviii, section iv, 229; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CVII, vol. i, 236-237; Works (1816), section IV, letter XLII, vol. ii, 243-244; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter XLIX, vol. iii, 116-118; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter LXXXVI, vol. i, 181-182; Works (1814), section IV, letter XVIII, vol. i, 339-340
    • Contents: Incipit: "It is but a few days, since I was inform'd by Avison, that the alarm". Sent from Durham. Dateline: "Sept: 21:". Address: "Durham".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0210 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 23 September 1753
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 181, vol. i, 381-383; Correspondence (1853), letter V, 18-21; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CVIII, vol. i, 237-239
    • Contents: Incipit: "You have been rightly informd that I have lost a most affectionate Father.". Sent from Kingston-Upon-Hull. to Durham. Dateline: "Sept. 23^d - 53". Address: "Hull". Envelope (front): "To / Thomas Gray Esquire / at Dr Whartons in / Durham".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0211 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [26 September 1753]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 182, vol. i, 383-385; Correspondence (1853), letter VI, 21-23; Memoirs (1775), letter xviii, section iv, 229-230; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CIX, vol. i, 239-240; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter XLIX, vol. iii, 116-118
    • Contents: Incipit: "I have just received your Letter, & am both surprized, & angry". Sent from Durham. Dateline: "Sept: 26". Address: "Durham".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0213 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [5 November 1753]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 184, vol. i, 388-389; Correspondence (1853), letter VII, 23-25; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXII, vol. i, 245-246
    • Contents: Incipit: "I am not in a way of leaving this place yet this fortnight, &". Sent from Stoke Poges. to [London]. Dateline: "Nov: 5". Address: "Stoke". Envelope (front): "To / William Mason Esqre, / at Mr Rowland Hosier's / in Panton Square near the Haymarket / London" Postmark: "6 NO".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0226 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 1 March 1755
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 195, vol. i, 418-419; Correspondence (1853), letter VIII, 26-29; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXVII, vol. i, 259-261
    • Contents: Incipit: "I am gathering together my disjecta Membra & as a specimen I send you". Sent from London. Dateline: "March 1^st-55". Address: "Arlington Street".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0228 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 27 June 1755
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 197, vol. i, 422-425; Correspondence (1853), letter IX, 29-34; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXIX, vol. i, 263-267
    • Contents: Incipit: "Amongst the variety of rational entertainments that Travel affords". Sent from Hanover. Dateline: "June 27th 55". Address: "Hanover".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0237 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 10 September 1755
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 206, vol. i, 438-440; Correspondence (1853), letter X, 35-37; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXXIV, vol. i, 276-279
    • Contents: Incipit: "I promisd to write to you from Tunbridge And now I perform it.". Sent from Royal Tunbridge Wells. Dateline: "Sept 10^th 55". Address: "Tunbridge".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0240 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 26 November 1755
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 209, vol. i, 443-446; Correspondence (1853), letter XI, 37-41; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXXVI, vol. i, 281-284
    • Contents: Incipit: "It is not true that I again make interest to be transported into Ireland;". Sent from Wadworth. Dateline: "Nov: 26^th 55". Address: "Wadworth".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0243 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 25 December 1755
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 212, vol. i, 450-453; Correspondence (1853), letter XII, 42-45; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXXVII, vol. i, 284-288
    • Contents: Incipit: "You desird me to write you news, but tho there are a great many promotions". Sent from Chiswick. Dateline: "Dec. 25^th-55". Address: "Chiswick".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0247 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [8 June 1756]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 216, vol. ii, 463-465; Correspondence (1853), letter XIII, 46-48; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXXX, vol. i, 298-300
    • Contents: Incipit: "If all the Greek you transcribed for me were Poetry already I would bestir myself". Sent from Cambridge. Dateline: "Tuesday 1756". Address: "Pemb. Hall".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0249 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 23 July 1756
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 218, vol. ii, 466-467; Correspondence (1853), letter XIV, 48-53; Memoirs (1775), letter xxiv, section iv, 245-247; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXXXI, vol. i, 300-303; Works (1816), section IV, letter LIII, vol. ii, 273-275; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter LXI, vol. iii, 151-153; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter XCII, vol. ii, 12-14; Works (1814), section IV, letter XXIV, vol. i, 354-355
    • Contents: Incipit: "I feel a contrition for my long silence; & yet perhaps it is the last thing". Sent from Stoke Poges. Dateline: "July, 23. 1756". Address: "Stoke". Envelope (front): "To / The Revd Mr Mason".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0251 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 30 July 1756
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 220, vol. ii, 470-473; Correspondence (1853), letter XV, 53-56; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXXXII, vol. i, 303-305
    • Contents: Incipit: "I received your Letters both at once yesterday which was Thursday,". Sent from Stoke Poges. to [London]. Dateline: "July 30. Friday. 1756". Address: "Stoke". Envelope (front): "To / The Revd William Mason / at the Right Hon^ble the Earl of Holderness's / in Arlington Street / London" Postmark: "31 IY".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0261 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 19 December 1756
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 230, vol. ii, 487-490; Correspondence (1853), letter XVI, 57-65; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXXXVI, vol. i, 311-327
    • Contents: Incipit: "I vow, I am ashamed to speak it. the nasty Man's Name is ---". Sent from [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Dec: 19. 1756". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Mason".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0269 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 23 April 1757
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 237, vol. ii, 498-500; Correspondence (1853), letter XVII, 75-79; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 185; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXXXIX, vol. i, 329-331; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter CXVI, vol. iv, 5-6
    • Contents: Incipit: "I too am set down here with something greater hopes of quiet, than I could". Sent from [Cambridge]. Dateline: "April 23. 1757".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0271 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [24/31 May 1757]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 238, vol. ii, 501-503; Correspondence (1853), letter XVIII, 79-82; Memoirs (1775), letter xxv, section iv, 247-248; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXL, vol. i, 331-333; Works (1816), section IV, letter LVIII, vol. ii, 281-282; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter LXVI, vol. iii, 159-161; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter XCIII, vol. ii, 14-15; Works (1814), section IV, letter XXV, vol. i, 356-357
    • Contents: Incipit: "You are so forgetful of me, that I should not forgive it, but that I suppose". Sent from Cambridge. Dateline: "Tuesday. May. 1757". Address: "Camb:".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0272 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [11 June 1757]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 239, vol. ii, 503-507; Correspondence (1853), letter XIX, 83-88; Memoirs (1775), letter xxv, section iv, 248-249; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 185-189; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXLI, vol. i, 334-338
    • Contents: Incipit: "I send you enclosed the breast & merry-thought & guts & garbage of the chicken,". Sent from Cambridge. Dateline: "Saturday ... June". Address: "Camb:^ge".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0275 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [1 August 1757]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 242, vol. ii, 511-512; Correspondence (1853), letter XXI, 91-93; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXLIV, vol. i, 342-343
    • Contents: Incipit: "If I did not send you a political letter forthwith, it was because L^d H:". Sent from Stoke Poges. Dateline: "Monday. Aug. 1". Address: "Stoke".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0283 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 7 September 1757
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 248, vol. ii, 522-524; Correspondence (1853), letter XXIV, 97-101; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXLVIII, vol. i, 348-350
    • Contents: Incipit: "You are welcome to the land of the Living, to the sunshine". Sent from [Stoke Poges]. Dateline: "Sept: 7. 1757". Envelope (front): "The Revd Mr Mason".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0285 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 28 September 1757
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 250, vol. ii, 527-530; Correspondence (1853), letter XXV, 101-109; Memoirs (1775), letter xxvii, section iv, 251-256; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 190-196; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CL, vol. i, 354-365; Works (1816), section IV, letter LXV, vol. ii, 291-296; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter LXXIII, vol. iii, 171-176; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter XCVIII, vol. ii, 21-26; Works (1814), section IV, letter XXVII, vol. i, 359-363
    • Contents: Incipit: "I have (as I desired St:^r to tell you) read over Caractacus twice". Sent from Stoke Poges. Dateline: "Sept: 28. 1757". Address: "Stoke".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0288 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 13 October 1757
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 253, vol. ii, 534-535; Correspondence (1853), letter XXVI, 110-112; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLII, vol. i, 368-369
    • Contents: Incipit: "I thank you for your history of Melpomene, w^ch is curious,". Sent from [Stoke Poges]. to [London]. Dateline: "Oct: 13. Friday. [Thursday] 1757". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Mason at The Earl of Holdernesse's in Arlington Street".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0298 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 19 December 1757
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 259, vol. ii, 543-545; Correspondence (1853), letter XXVII, 112-115; Memoirs (1775), section iv, 258-259; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLVI, vol. i, 372-375; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter CXVI, vol. iv, 5-6
    • Contents: Incipit: "Tho' I very well know the bland emollient saponaceous qualities both of". Sent from [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Dec: 19. 1757".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0300 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 5 January 1758
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 261, vol. ii, 546-548; Correspondence (1853), letter XXIX, 119-124; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLIX, vol. ii, 5-11
    • Contents: Incipit: "I send you with your anonymous Criticisms The produce of Xtmas.". Sent from Syon Hill. Dateline: "Jan: 5 - 58". Address: "Syon Hill". [Endorsed (by Mason): "To Mr Gray Jan: 5th 1758 with my Ode to Mr Joliffe"].
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0301 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 13 January 1758
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 262, vol. ii, 550-552; Correspondence (1853), letter XXX, 125-130; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 197-200; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLX, vol. ii, 12-15
    • Contents: Incipit: "Why you make no more of writing an Ode, & throwing it into the fire,". Sent from [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Jan: 13. 1758".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0302 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 16 January 1758
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 263, vol. ii, 553-555; Correspondence (1853), letter XXXI, 130-134; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLXI, vol. ii, 16-19
    • Contents: Incipit: "I beleive you are quite right, as you always are in these matters.". Sent from [Syon Hill]. Dateline: "Jan: 16 - 58".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0305 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [22 January 1758]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 265, vol. ii, 556-558; Correspondence (1853), letter XXXII, 135-137; Memoirs (1775), section iv, 257-258; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 200-204; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLXII, vol. ii, 19-22
    • Contents: Incipit: "I am almost blind with a great cold, & should not have wrote to you". Sent from [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Sunday - 1758. Jan^r".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0308 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [3 February 1758]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 266*, vol. ii, 561-563; Correspondence (1853), letter XXVIII, 116-119; Memoirs (1775), letter xxviii, section iv, 256; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLVIII, vol. ii, 2-5; Works (1816), section IV, letter LXX, vol. ii, 302-305; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter LXXVIII, vol. iii, 183-187; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter XCIX, vol. ii, 26-29; Works (1814), section IV, letter XXVIII, vol. i, 363-366
    • Contents: Incipit: "A life spent out of the World has its hours of despondence, its inconveniences,". Sent from [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Jan: 3. 1758". Envelope (front): "To / The Revd Mr Mason".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0311 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 24 March 1758
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 269, vol. ii, 567-569; Correspondence (1853), letter XXXIV, 144-147; Memoirs (1775), section iv, 257-258; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 206-208; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLXV, vol. ii, 26-29
    • Contents: Incipit: "I have full as much ennui as yourself, tho' much less dissipation,". Sent from [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Good Friday 1758".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0314 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 20 June 1758
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 272, vol. ii, 573-575; Correspondence (1853), letter XXXV, 147-150; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLXVIII, vol. ii, 33-35
    • Contents: Incipit: "I sympathize with your eyes, having been confined at Florence with the". Sent from [Cambridge]. to [Aston]. Dateline: "June 20, 1758". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Mason, Rector of Aston near Sheffield Yorkshire" Postmark: "CAMBRIDGE".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0318 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 11 August 1758
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 275, vol. ii, 579-581; Correspondence (1853), letter XXXVI, 151-157; Memoirs (1775), section iv, 257; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLXX, vol. ii, 36-40
    • Contents: Incipit: "I was just leaving Cambridge at the time, when I received your last letter,". Sent from Stoke Poges. Dateline: "Aug: 11. 1758". Address: "Stoke".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0326 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 9 November 1758
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 283, vol. ii, 593-594; Correspondence (1853), letter XXXIX, 163-164; Memoirs (1775), letter xxxiv, section iv, 273-274; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 212-214; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLXXVIII, vol. ii, 61-62; Works (1816), section IV, letter LXXX, vol. ii, 325-326; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter LXXXVIII, vol. iii, 210-211; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter CV, vol. ii, 43-44; Works (1814), section IV, letter XXXIV, vol. i, 378-379
    • Contents: Incipit: "I should have told you, that Caradoc came safe to hand, but my critical". Sent from Stoke Poges. to [Aston]. Dateline: "Nov: 9. 1758". Address: "Stoke". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Mason, Rector of Aston, at Sheffield in Yorkshire".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0328 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: [9 November 1758 or later]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 284, vol. ii, 595-597; Correspondence (1853), letter XL, 165-167; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLXXIX, vol. ii, 62-64
    • Contents: Incipit: "I rec^d your last. but as I had before sent you my 2^d Ode I was in hopes". Sent from [Aston].
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0329 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [28 November 1758]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 284*, vol. ii, 597-599; Correspondence (1853), 61-66; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 214-215; Letters (1900-12), fragment, letter no. CLXXX, vol. ii, 65
    • Contents: Incipit: " Whom Camber bore. I suppose you say whom, because the Harp is". Sent from [Stoke Poges].
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0331 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [18 January 1759]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 286, vol. ii, 603-610; Correspondence (1853), letter XLI, first part 167-171, second part 66-75; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 215-224; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLXXXII, vol. ii, 69-72
    • Contents: Incipit: "You will think me either dead, or in that happy state (w^ch is". Sent from London. Dateline: "Jan: 18. 1758". Address: "London".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0332 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: [22 January 1759]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 287, vol. ii, 610-611; Correspondence (1853), letter XXXIII, 141-143; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLXXXIII, vol. ii, 72-74
    • Contents: Incipit: "I cannot help sending you a line to desire that if you can spare a moment". Sent from Aston. Dateline: "Jan: 22^d - 58". Address: "Aston".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0333 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 25 January 1759
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 288, vol. ii, 611-614; Correspondence (1853), letter XLII, 171-176; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLXXXIV, vol. ii, 74-78
    • Contents: Incipit: "I sent an impatient letter to you (to use Mrs. Mincings Epithet to dinner)". Sent from Aston. Dateline: "Jan: 25^th - 59". Address: "Aston".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0336 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 1 March 1759
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 291, vol. ii, 617-618; Correspondence (1853), letter XLIII, 176-179; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 225-226; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLXXXV, vol. ii, 78-81
    • Contents: Incipit: "Did I tell you I had been confined in Town with the Gout for a fortnight?". Sent from Cambridge. Dateline: "March 1. 1759". Address: "Cambridge".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0337 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 10 April 1759
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 292, vol. ii, 618-620; Correspondence (1853), letter XLIV, 179-182; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLXXXVI, vol. ii, 81-84
    • Contents: Incipit: "This is the third return of the Gout in the space of three months,". Sent from [London]. Dateline: "April 10. 1759".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0342 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 23 July 1759
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 297, vol. ii, 629-631; Correspondence (1853), letter XLV, 182-185; Memoirs (1775), section iv, 275-276; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLXXXVIII, vol. ii, 90-93
    • Contents: Incipit: "I was alarmed to hear the condition you were in, when you left". Sent from London. Dateline: "July 23: 1759". Address: "At Mr. Jauncey's, Southampton-Row, Bloomsbury".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0350 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 6 October 1759
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 304, vol. ii, 645-646; Correspondence (1853), letter XLVIII, 192-195; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXCIII, vol. ii, 108-109
    • Contents: Incipit: "If you have been happy, where you are, or merely better in health". Sent from Stoke Poges. Dateline: "Oct: 6. 1759". Address: "At the Lady Viscountess Cobham's at Stoke-House near Windsor, Bucks.".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0354 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 1 December 1759
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 307, vol. ii, 653-655; Correspondence (1853), letter L, 198-200; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXCVI, vol. ii, 114-117
    • Contents: Incipit: "I am extremely obliged to you [for the] kind attention you bestow". Sent from London. Dateline: "Dec: 1. 1759". Address: "At Mr. Jauncey's, in Southampton-Row".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0360 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 7 June 1760
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 312, vol. ii, 672-676; Correspondence (1853), letter LII, 204-209; Memoirs (1775), letter xxxix, section iv, 283-284; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 231-232; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCI, vol. ii, 139-143; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter XCIX, vol. iii, 254-259; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter CX, vol. ii, 53-56
    • Contents: Incipit: "First & foremost pray take notice of the Paper, on w^ch I am writing". Sent from London. Dateline: "June 7. 1760". Address: "London".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0362 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 27 June 1760
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 314, vol. ii, 682-684; Correspondence (1853), letter LIII, 209-211; Memoirs (1775), section iv, 284; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCIII, vol. ii, 149-151
    • Contents: Incipit: "I can not figure to myself what you should mean by my old papers. ". Sent from London. Dateline: "June 27. 1760". Address: "London".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0365 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 7 August 1760
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 317, vol. ii, 689-691; Correspondence (1853), letter LVI, 216-222; Memoirs (1775), section iv, 285-286; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 237-239; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCVII, vol. ii, 159-164
    • Contents: Incipit: "Your Packet, being directed to me here, lay some days in expectation". Sent from Cambridge. Dateline: "Aug: 7. 1760". Address: "Pemb: Hall".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0368 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [31 August 1760]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 319*, vol. ii, 694-696; Memoirs (1775), section iv, 285-286; Works (1816), section IV, letter XCI, vol. ii, 363-366; Works (1814), section IV, letter XXXIX, vol. i, 387-390
    • Contents: Incipit: "Having made many enquiries about the authenticity of these Fragments;". Sent from [Cambridge].
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0376 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 28 November 1760
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 326, vol. ii, 712-713; Correspondence (1853), letter LX, 230-231; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXIII, vol. ii, 177-178
    • Contents: Incipit: "I send you the Elegy, You will find I have alterd all the things you". Sent from Aston. Dateline: "Nov: 28^th -60". Address: "Aston".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0377 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 10 December 1760
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 327, vol. ii, 713-717; Correspondence (1853), letter LXI, 232-240; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 241-244; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXIV, vol. ii, 178-186
    • Contents: Incipit: "It is not good to give copies of a thing, before you have given it". Sent from London. Dateline: "Dec: 10. 1760". Address: "London, at M^r Jauncy's, not Jenours ".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0379 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 8 January 1761
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 329, vol. ii, 717-720; Correspondence (1853), letter LXII, 240-244; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXVI, vol. ii, 188-191
    • Contents: Incipit: "I thank you much for your Criticisms But at present shall not take". Sent from [Aston]. Dateline: "Jan: 8^th 1761".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0380 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 22 January 1761
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 330, vol. ii, 720-724; Correspondence (1853), letter LXIII, 245-252; Memoirs (1775), letter xli, section iv, 289-290; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 245-247; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXVII, vol. ii, 191-199; Works (1816), section IV, letter XCIV, vol. ii, 374-375; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter CII, vol. iii, 267-269; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter CXII, vol. ii, 58-60; Works (1814), section IV, letter XLI, vol. i, 392-393
    • Contents: Incipit: "I am delighted with F: H:^s letter, & envy you his friendship:". Sent from London. Dateline: "Jan: 22. 1761". Address: "London".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0389 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 20 July 1761
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 338, vol. ii, 744; Correspondence (1853), letter LXVIII, 264-265; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXXIV, vol. ii, 219-220
    • Contents: Incipit: "The Old Man was really dying when I wrote to you from Stilton.". Sent from Aston. Dateline: "July 20^th 1761". Address: "Aston".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0390 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [August 1761]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 339, vol. ii, 745-746; Correspondence (1853), letter LXIX, 266-268; Memoirs (1775), letter xlii, section iv, 291-292; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXXV, vol. ii, 220-223; Works (1816), section IV, letter XCIX, vol. ii, 390-391; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter CVII, vol. iii, 286-288; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter CXIII, vol. ii, 60-61; Works (1814), section IV, letter XLII, vol. i, 394-395
    • Contents: Incipit: "Be assured he never will die, so the better the thing is in value,". Sent from [Cambridge]. Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Mason".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0397 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [20 October 1761]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 346, vol. ii, 758-759; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXI, 278-279; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXXX, vol. ii, 237-238
    • Contents: Incipit: "Perhaps You have not yet hang'd yourself! when you do (as doubtless you". Sent from London. Dateline: "Oct: 1761". Address: "London".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0402 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 8 December 1761
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 351, vol. ii, 766; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXIII, 283-284; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXXXV, vol. ii, 246-247
    • Contents: Incipit: "Of all loves come to Cambridge out of hand, for here is M^r Dillival". Sent from Cambridge. Dateline: "Dec: 8. 1761". Address: "Pemb: Hall".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0405 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 11 January 1762
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 352, vol. ii, 768-769; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXIV, 284-285; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXXXVI, vol. ii, 247
    • Contents: Incipit: "It is a mercy, that Old Men are mortal, & that dignified Clergymen know". Sent from Cambridge. Dateline: "Jan: 11. 1762". Address: "Cambridge".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0407 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 5 February 1762
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 354, vol. ii, 773-774; Correspondence (1853), letter LXIV, 253-254; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXXXVIII, vol. ii, 253
    • Contents: Incipit: "When the belly is full, the bones are at rest. you squat yourself down". Sent from Cambridge. Dateline: "Feb: 5. 1761". Address: "Pemb: Coll".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0410 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 17 March 1762
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 357, vol. ii, 776-778; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXV, 285-288; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 249-250; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXL, vol. ii, 255-258
    • Contents: Incipit: "I send your Reverence the lesson, w^ch is pure good-nature on my part". Sent from Cambridge. Dateline: "March 17. 1762". Address: "Cambridge".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0412 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [21 June 1762]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 359, vol. ii, 780; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXVI, 289-290; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXLII, vol. ii, 260-261
    • Contents: Incipit: "If you still are residing & precenting at York, I feel a great propensity". Sent from Cambridge. Dateline: "Monday". Address: "Pemb: Hall".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0415 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [September 1762]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 362, vol. ii, 782-784; Correspondence (1853), 137-140; Letters (1900-12), appendix IV, vol. iii, 344-348
    • Contents: Incipit: "Indeed these four Stanzas may be spared without hurting the sense at all:". Sent from [Durham].
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0417 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 21 December 1762
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 364, vol. ii, 789-790; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXVIII, 292-296; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 250-251; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXLVI, vol. ii, 269-273
    • Contents: Incipit: "As to my pardon, for which you supplicate, you know too well how easily". Sent from Cambridge. Dateline: "Dec: 21. 1762". Address: "Camb:".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0418 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 15 January 1763
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 365, vol. ii, 791-793; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXIX, 296-301; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 251-255; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXLVII, vol. iii, 1-4
    • Contents: Incipit: "I send you with this a drawing of the Ruin you were so much pleasd with". Sent from Aston. Dateline: "Jan: 15^th 1763". Address: "Aston".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0419 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 8 February 1763
    • Language: English, Latin
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 366, vol. ii, 794-796; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXX, 301-306; Memoirs (1775), letter xliv, section iv, 294-296; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 255-257; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXLVIII, vol. iii, 4-7; Works (1816), section IV, letter CV, vol. ii, 403-409; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter CXV, vol. iii, 302-311; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter CXVI, vol. ii, 65-73; Works (1814), section IV, letter XLIV, vol. i, 396-401
    • Contents: Incipit: "Anne tibi arrident Complimenta? if so, I hope your vanity is tickled". Sent from [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Feb: 8. 1763".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0421 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 6 March 1763
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 368, vol. ii, 798-799; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXXI, 306-307; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCL, vol. iii, 9-10
    • Contents: Incipit: "I should be glad to know, at what time you think of returning into the North,". Sent from [Cambridge]. Dateline: "March 6. 1763".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0424 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 28 June 1763
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 371, vol. ii, 801-802; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXXII, 308-311; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLI, vol. iii, 10-12
    • Contents: Incipit: "Stonehewer tells me that you are returned to Cambridge therefore I trust". Sent from York. Dateline: "June 28^th 1763". Address: "York".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0425 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [July 1763]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 372, vol. ii, 803-804; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXXIII, 311-315; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 266-268; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLII, vol. iii, 13-15
    • Contents: Incipit: "As I have no more received my little thingumterries, than you have yours,". Sent from [Cambridge].
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0432 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [8 October 1763]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 379, vol. ii, 821-823; Correspondence (1853), letter XCV, 351-353; Memoirs (1775), section iv, 296-299; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 275; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLXVIII, vol. iii, 68-69
    • Contents: Incipit: "I rejoice. but has she common sense, is she a Gentlewoman? has she money?". Sent from Cambridge. Address: "Pemb: Coll:".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0451 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [17 January 1765]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 399, vol. ii, 857-862; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXXIV, 315-323; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 269-270; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLXVI, vol. iii, 58-63
    • Contents: Incipit: "As you are alone & not quite well, I do feel a little sort of (I am almost". Sent from Cambridge. to [Aston]. Dateline: "Thursday.". Address: "Camb:". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Mason Rector of Aston near Sheffield Yorkshire" Postmark: "SAFFRON WALDEN 18 1A".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0458 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [23 May 1765]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 404, vol. ii, 876-877; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXXIX, 337-339; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLXXI, vol. iii, 74-75
    • Contents: Incipit: "In my way into the remote parts of the North I mean to make you a visit". Sent from London. to York. Dateline: "May 23.". Address: "Jermyn-Street". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Mason, Precentor of the Cathedral of York" Postmark: "23 MA".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0461 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [8 July 1765]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 407, vol. ii, 879-881; Correspondence (1853), letter XC, 339-341; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLXXIII, vol. iii, 76-78
    • Contents: Incipit: "Tell me, if you don't like this, & I will send you a worse.". Sent from [Durham].
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0462 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 22 July 1765
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 408, vol. ii, 881-883; Correspondence (1853), letter XCI, 341-343; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLXXIV, vol. iii, 78-79
    • Contents: Incipit: "As bad as Your Verses were, they are Yours, & therefore when I get back". Sent from Aston. to Durham. Dateline: "July 22^d 1765". Address: "Aston". Envelope (front): "To Thomas Gray Esqr at Thomas Whartons Esqr at Old Park near Durham" Postmark: "ROTH[ER]HAM".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0469 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [8 November 1765]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 415, vol. ii, 898-900; Correspondence (1853), letter XCIV, 348-351; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLXXIX, vol. iii, 95-96
    • Contents: Incipit: "Res est sacra miser (says the Poet) but I say, it is the happy Man,". Sent from [London]. to York. Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Mason in the Minster Yard York Free R. Stonhewer" Postmark: "9 NO".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0479 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [26 August 1766]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 424, vol. iii, 933-935; Correspondence (1853), letter XCVI, 353-355; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLXXXV, vol. iii, 117-118
    • Contents: Incipit: "I rejoice to find you are both in health, & that one or other of you". Sent from [Cambridge].
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0483 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 5 October 1766
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 427, vol. iii, 938-940; Correspondence (1853), letter XCVIII, 359-362; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLXXXVII, vol. iii, 120-122
    • Contents: Incipit: "I was going to write to you, when I received your letter, and on the same subject.". Sent from Cambridge. Dateline: "5 Oct: 1766". Address: "P: Hall".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0484 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 9 October 1766
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 428, vol. iii, 940; Correspondence (1853), letter XCIX, 362-363; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLXXXVIII, vol. iii, 123
    • Contents: Incipit: "I am desired to tell you, that if you still continue to be tired of residence,". Sent from London. Dateline: "Oct: 9. 1766". Address: "Jermyn-Street, at M^r Roberts's".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0489 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 27 January 1767
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 433, vol. iii, 949; Correspondence (1853), letter CII, 369-370; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXCIII, vol. iii, 132-133
    • Contents: Incipit: "D^r Swift says, one never should write to one's Friends but in high". Sent from Cambridge. Dateline: "Jan: 27. 1767". Address: "Pemb: Hall".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0490 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 2 February 1767
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 434, vol. iii, 950-951; Correspondence (1853), letter CIII, 371-372; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXCIV, vol. iii, 133-134
    • Contents: Incipit: "No, alass, she has not withstood the Severity of the Weather.". Sent from London. Dateline: "Feb. 2^d 1767". Address: "Cleveland row".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0491 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 15 February 1767
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 435, vol. iii, 951-953; Correspondence (1853), letter CIV, 373-377; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXCV, vol. iii, 134-136
    • Contents: Incipit: "It grieves me to hear the bad account you give of our poor Patient's health.". Sent from [Cambridge]. to [London]. Dateline: "Sunday. 15 Feb: 1767". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Mason at Mr Mennis's in Cleveland Row St James's London" Postmark: "SAFFRON WALDEN 16 FE".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0492 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 28 March 1767
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 436, vol. iii, 953; Memoirs (1775), letter liv, section iv, 324; Correspondence (1853), letter CV, 377-378; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXCVI, vol. iii, 136-137; Works (1816), section IV, letter CXXVIII, vol. ii, 477; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter CXXXIX, vol. iv, 85-86; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter CXXX, vol. ii, 107; Works (1814), section IV, letter LIV, vol. i, 424
    • Contents: Incipit: "I break in upon you at a moment, when we least of all are permitted". Sent from [Cambridge]. Dateline: "March. 28. 1767".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0494 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 1 April 1767
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 438, vol. iii, 954; Correspondence (1853), letter CVI, 379; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXCVII, vol. iii, 137
    • Contents: Incipit: "The dear testimonial of your friendship reachd Bristol about the time". Sent from Bath. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "April 1^st 1767". Address: "Bath". Envelope (front): "To Thomas Gray Esqr at Pembroke Hall Cambridge".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0496 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 23 May 1767
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 440, vol. iii, 957-958; Correspondence (1853), letter CVII, 380-381; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXCVIII, vol. iii, 137-138
    • Contents: Incipit: "All this time have I been waiting to say something to the purpose,". Sent from London. Dateline: "23 May. 1767". Address: "Jermyn-Street".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0500 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 6 June 1767
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 444, vol. iii, 963; Correspondence (1853), letter CX, 388-389; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCII, vol. iii, 144-145
    • Contents: Incipit: "We are a-coming, but not so fast as you think for, because M^r Brown can not". Sent from London. Dateline: "June 6. 1767". Address: "Jermyn-street".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0502 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 10 July 1767
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 446, vol. iii, 964-965; Correspondence (1853), letter CXI, 390-391; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCIV, vol. iii, 146-147
    • Contents: Incipit: "We are all impatient to see you in proportion to our various interests". Sent from Durham. Dateline: "July 10: 1767". Address: "Old-Park, near Darlington".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0503 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 15 July 1767
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 447, vol. iii, 965-967; Correspondence (1853), letter CXII, 391-395; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCV, vol. iii, 147-149
    • Contents: Incipit: "My Old Aunt is dead but she has not left me so much money that I can come". Sent from York. to Durham. Dateline: "July 15^th 1767". Address: "York". Envelope (front): "To Thomas Gray Esqr at Doctor Whartons at Old Park near Darlington" Postmark: "YORK".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0504 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 19 July 1767
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 448, vol. iii, 968; Correspondence (1853), letter CXIII, 396-397; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 280-281; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCVI, vol. iii, 150-151
    • Contents: Incipit: "I come forthwith to the epitaph, w^ch you have had the charity to write". Sent from Durham. Dateline: "Sunday. July 19. 1767". Address: "Old-Park".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0505 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 26 July 1767
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 449, vol. iii, 969-970; Correspondence (1853), letter CXIV, 398-400; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCVII, vol. iii, 151-152
    • Contents: Incipit: "You are very perverse. I do desire, you would not think of dropping the". Sent from Durham. Dateline: "26 July. 1767". Address: "Old-Park".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0506 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 27 July 1767
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 450, vol. iii, 970-973; Correspondence (1853), letter CXV, 400-404; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCVIII, vol. iii, 152-154
    • Contents: Incipit: "In hopes this may catch you before you set off for Hartlepool I answer". Sent from York. to Durham. Dateline: "July 27^th 1767". Address: "York". Envelope (front): "To Thomas Gray Esqb at Old Park near Darlington" Postmark: "YORK".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0507 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 9 August 1767
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 451, vol. iii, 973-974; Correspondence (1853), letter CXVI, 404-406; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 282; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCIX, vol. iii, 155
    • Contents: Incipit: "I have been at Hartlepool like any thing, & since that visiting about". Sent from Durham. to York. Dateline: "9 Aug: 1767. Sunday". Address: "Old-Park". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Mason, Precentor of York" Postmark: "DARLINGTON".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0509 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 11 September 1767
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 453, vol. iii, 976-978; Correspondence (1853), letter CXVII, 406-409; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCXI, vol. iii, 157-160
    • Contents: Incipit: "I admire you as the pink of perversity. how did I know about York-Races?". Sent from Durham. Dateline: "Sept: 11. 1767". Address: "Old-Park".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0517 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 8 January 1768
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 461, vol. iii, 992-995; Correspondence (1853), letter CXIX, 411-414; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCXVII, vol. iii, 170-172
    • Contents: Incipit: "I did not write to you - that's to be sure: but then consider, I had". Sent from Cambridge. Dateline: "8 Jan: 1768". Address: "Pemb: Coll:".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0538 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [1 August 1768]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 481, vol. iii, 1039; Correspondence (1853), letter CXXI, 418-419; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCXXXII, vol. iii, 203-204
    • Contents: Incipit: "Where you are, I know not: but before this can reach you, I guess you will". Sent from London. Dateline: "Aug:". Address: "Jermyn-Street". Envelope (front): Postmark: "1 AV DW".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0541 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 8 August 1768
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 484, vol. iii, 1043-1044; Correspondence (1853), letter CXXII, 420-422; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCXXXIV, vol. iii, 206-207
    • Contents: Incipit: "I will not congratulate you, for I would not have you think I am glad.". Sent from Hornby Castle. to [London]. Dateline: "Aug^st 8^th 1768". Address: "Hornby Castle". Envelope (front): "To Thomas Gray Esqr at Mr Roberts Hozier in Jermyn Street London" Postmark: "CATTERICK 12 AV".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0543 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 7 September 1768
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 486, vol. iii, 1046-1047; Correspondence (1853), letter CXXIII, 422-425; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCXXXVI, vol. iii, 209-210
    • Contents: Incipit: "What can I say more to you about Oddington. you seem engaged to". Sent from Cambridge. Dateline: "Sept: 7. 1768". Address: "Pemb: Coll:".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0547 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 29 December 1768
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 489, vol. iii, 1052-1053; Correspondence (1853), letter CXXIV, 425-429; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCXL, vol. iii, 216-218
    • Contents: Incipit: "Oh wicked Scroddles! there you have gone & told my Arcanum Arcanorum ". Sent from [Cambridge]. Dateline: "29 Dec: 1768".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0562 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas and Wharton, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 26 August 1769
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 503, vol. iii, 1073-1074; Correspondence (1853), letter CXXV, 430-431; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCL, vol. iii, 230-231
    • Contents: Incipit: "I received last night your letter big with another a week older than itself.". Sent from Durham. Dateline: "Aug: 26. 1769. Saturday". Address: "Old-Park". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Mason at Hartlepool".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0570 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 2 December 1769
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 509, vol. iii, 1091; Correspondence (1853), letter CXXVIII, 434-435; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCLIII, vol. iii, 243-244
    • Contents: Incipit: "I am afraid something is the matter with you, that I hear nothing from you,". Sent from Cambridge. Dateline: "Dec: 2. 1769". Address: "Pemb: Coll:".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0572 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 14 December 1769
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 510, vol. iii, 1093-1094; Correspondence (1853), letter CXXIX, 436; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCLIV, vol. iii, 244
    • Contents: Incipit: "I have seen D^r Hurd, & find the story I told you is not true,". Sent from London. Dateline: "14 Dec: 1769". Address: "Jermyn-Street".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0610 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: [7 September 1770]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 531, vol. iii, 1143-1145; Correspondence (1853), letter CXXX, 437-438; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCLXXI, vol. iii, 292-293
    • Contents: Incipit: "I am very well at present, the usual effect of my summer-expeditions,". Sent from [Cambridge].
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0614 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Mason, William
    • Date: 24 October 1770
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 535, vol. iii, 1149-1150; Correspondence (1853), letter CXXXII, 442-445; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCLXXIII, vol. iii, 294-296
    • Contents: Incipit: "I have been for these three weeks & more confined to my room". Sent from Cambridge. Dateline: "24 Oct: 1770". Address: "Pemb: Hall".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0629 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: [27 March 1771]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 547, vol. iii, 1177-1179; Correspondence (1853), letter CXXXIII, 445-448; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCLXXX, vol. iii, 311-313
    • Contents: Incipit: "I find from Stonhewer that he has now £129-10-6, as appears by the acc^t". Sent from London. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "March 27^th". Address: "Curzon Street:". Envelope (front): "Thomas Gray Esqr Pembroke Hall Cambridge" Postmark: "27 M[R]".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0631 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Mason, William to Gray, Thomas
    • Date: 15 April 1771
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 548, vol. iii, 1179-1182; Correspondence (1853), letter CXXXIV, 448-453; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCLXXXI, vol. iii, 313-316
    • Contents: Incipit: "Stonhewer has this post rec^d yours but you tifft at him so much". Sent from London. Dateline: "April 15^th -71". Address: "Curzon Street".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  
  

• Correspondence with West, Richard

  • Archive Work ID: letters.west_richard
  • Correspondent: West, Richard
  • Language: English
  • Date Range: 1735-1742
  • Summary: 44 letters (27 from Gray, 17 to Gray), dated between 1735 and 1742.

    See also: letter tgal0079 (with Walpole, Horace)

    See also: letter tgal0095 (with Walpole, Horace)

    See also: letter tgal0104 (with Walpole, Horace)

  2 Manuscripts:

  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0023 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to West, Richard
    • Date: [8 May 1736]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 22, vol. i, 38-41; Correspondence (1853), letter I, 1-4; Memoirs (1775), section i, 7-10; Correspondence (1915), letter no. 30, vol. i, 69-74; Letters (1900-12), letter no. II, vol. i, 2
    • Contents: Incipit: "My letter enjoys itself, before its open'd, in imagining the Confusion". Sent from Cambridge. to [Oxford]. Julian calendar. Dateline: "May: 8:-". Address: "Cantabr:". Envelope (front): "To / Mr West of Christ Church / Oxford" Postmark: "CAMBRIDGE".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0121 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to West, Richard
    • Date: [23 April 1742]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 105, vol. i, 196-199; Memoirs (1775), letter vi, section iii, 145-146; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 136; Correspondence (1915), letter no. 146, vol. ii, 33-34; Letters (1900-12), letter no. LIII, vol. i, 100-101; Works (1816), section III, letter VI, vol. ii, 132-133; Works (1835-1843), section III, letter VI, vol. ii, 158-160; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter LIV, vol. i, 122-123; Works (1814), section III, letter VI, vol. i, 263-264
    • Contents: Incipit: "I should not have fail'd to answer your Letter immediately,". Sent from [London]. to [Pope's]. Julian calendar. Envelope (front): "To / Richard West Esq, / at David Mitchell's Esq / of Popes near Hatfield Hartfordshire" Postmark: "24 AP".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.