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Thomas Gray to Norton Nicholls, 24 June 1770

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To The Revd Mr Nicholls at Blundeston near Leostoff Suffolk By Yarmouth
 CAMBRIDGE

Pemb: Coll: 24 June. 1770.
Dear Sr

I am return'd from Aston, & now wait your commands. my idea is, that we might meet on the first or second of July at Huntingdon or at the Wheat-Sheaf, 5 miles further on the Northern road (for I do not like to be here at the Commencement) & thence find our way cross by Thrapston into Warwickshire, so thro' Worcestershire, Shropshire, & other of the midland counties for about three weeks; but the particular route & objects we are to see I leave to be determined on joint consultation. the Wheat-sheaf I only mention as a very good Inn (tho' a little out of our way) where I possibly may go, & wait a day or two for you. send me word, whether it suits you, & precisely tell me the day you can come. my compliments to Mrs Nicholls.

I am sincerely
Yours
T G:

I wish you a good delivery.

Letter ID: letters.0607 (Source: TEI/XML)

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 53
Addressee: Nicholls, Norton, c. 1742-1809
Addressee's age: 28[?]

Dates

Date of composition: 24 June 1770
Date (on letter): 24 June. 1770
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Address (on letter): Pemb: Coll:
Place of addressee: Blundeston, United Kingdom

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 1 page
Addressed: To The Revd Mr Nicholls at Blundeston near Leostoff Suffolk By Yarmouth (postmark: CAMBRIDGE)

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I am return'd from Aston, & now wait your commands. my idea is,...
Mentioned: Aston
Huntingdon
Shropshire
Thrapston
Warwickshire
Wheat-Sheaf (Alconbury)
Worcestershire

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
College Library, Eton College , Windsor, UK <http://www.etoncollege.com/collegelibrary.aspx>
Availability: The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes; bound into a copy of Mathias's Works of Thomas Gray (London, 1814), vol. II, part 2; a photocopy is at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, OSB MSS c 467, box 1, folder 97

Print Versions

  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, letter XXX, vol. v, 111-112
  • The Letters of Thomas Gray, including the correspondence of Gray and Mason, 3 vols. Ed. by Duncan C. Tovey. London: George Bell and Sons, 1900-12, letter no. CCCLXVIII, vol. iii, 286
  • Correspondence of Thomas Gray, 3 vols. Ed. by the late Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley, with corrections and additions by H. W. Starr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971 [1st ed. 1935], letter no. 528, vol. iii, 1139