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.

2 Manuscripts:

• • Archive MS ID: letters.0208 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
  • Date: [24 July 1753]
  • Physical Description: A.L.S.; envelope, 1 page
  • Language: English
  • Location: PML 16518 (extra-illustrated copy of Gray's Odes), 5, Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts (LHMS), Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA <http://www.themorgan.org/collection>
  • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford. Both Mitford (1853) and Tovey (1900) erroneously give Mason as the addressee.
  • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 179, vol. i, 379-380; Correspondence (1853), letter III, 13-16; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CVI, vol. i, 235-236
  • Contents: Incipit: "We perform'd our journey, a very agreeable one, within the time". Sent from Durham. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "July 24. Tuesday". Address: "Durham". Envelope (front): "To / The Revd Mr Brown, M:A: / President of Pembroke Hall Cambridge / By Caxton" Postmark: "DURHAM". In the 1753 letter he gives details of his trip to Durham and the surroundings there;.
  • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: letters.0278 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
  • Date: 14 August 1757
  • Physical Description: A.L.S.; envelope, 1 page
  • Language: English
  • Location: PML 16518 (extra-illustrated copy of Gray's Odes), 3, Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts (LHMS), Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA <http://www.themorgan.org/collection>
  • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 245, vol. ii, 516; Correspondence (1853), letter XXII, 93-94; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXLV, vol. i, 344
  • Contents: Incipit: "Excuse me, if I begin to wonder a little, that I have heard no news of you". Sent from [Stoke Poges]. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Aug: 14. 1757". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Brown M:A: President of Pembroke Hall Cambridge" Postmark: "16 AV". [I]n the 1757 letter Gray asks if Brown received "Dodsley's packet," asks how the Odes has been received at Cambridge, says he has been confined at home, and notes that he has acquired "some volumes of the Great French Encyclopedie.".
  • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.