Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole (21 January 1735) Alexander Huber Editor Thomas Gray Archive
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 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. 11, vol. i, 20-21 http://www.e-enlightenment.com/search/letters/print/?printref_sourceedition=graythOU0084&printref_docnumber=11 The Correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West and Ashton (1734-1771), 2 vols. Chronologically arranged and edited with introduction, notes, and index by Paget Toynbee. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915, letter no. 10, vol. i, 26-27 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/TyP_1915i/1/26 The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. Ed. by W. S. Lewis. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP; London: Oxford UP, 1937-83, vols. 13/14: Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Gray, Richard West and Thomas Ashton i, 1734-42, Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Gray ii, 1745-71, ed. by W. S. Lewis, George L. Lam and Charles H. Bennett, 1948, vol. i, 76-77 https://libsvcs-1.its.yale.edu/hwcorrespondence/page.asp?vol=13&page=76 Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 Cambridge, United Kingdom Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 London, United Kingdom

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To The Honble Mr Horace Walpole at the house of the right honble Sr Robert Walpole in St James's Square London
CAMBRIDGE 22 1A

Tuesday Jan: 21 P:C:

I, Orozmades, Master of the noble Science of Defence, hearing of the great reputation of thee, Timothy Celadon, do challenge & invite thee to contend with me at long-love, great-affection, or whatever other weapon you shall make choice of, in Kings-Colledge Quadrangle, a Week hence precisely – – –

Vivat Rex –

And that you may not fail me, I believe I shall see you at London beforehand; Almanzor persuades me, and I have a months mind to it myself; tho' I think it a foolish undertaking enough would you advise me to come, or not? for I stand wavering. but pray, don't importune, don't press, dear Sr Celadon; oh Jesus! I believe, if you should importune, I shall– be very coming:–if I do venture, I must borrow your Disguise; for nobody, but you, must know, that I am in town: well! be it, as it will, you have got my Soul with you already; I should think, 'twould be better, for you to bring it hither to the rest of me, than make my body take a journey to it; besides it would be cheaper to me, for that can come down in the coach with you; but my limbs must pay for their passage up. I hate living by halves, for now I lead such a kind of I don't know how–as it were–: in short, what the devil d'ye mean by keeping me from myself so long? I expect to be pay'd with interest, & in a short time to be a whole thing, whereas at this present writing, I am but a

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