Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole (3 October 1736) Alexander Huber Editor Thomas Gray Archive
info@thomasgray.org https://www.thomasgray.org/
Oxford

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

 UK Cambridge Pembroke College, Cambridge College Library GBR/1058/GRA/3/4/25

The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes

 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. 28, vol. i, 51-52 http://www.e-enlightenment.com/search/letters/print/?printref_sourceedition=graythOU0084&printref_docnumber=28 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. 45, vol. i, 106-108 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/TyP_1915i/1/106 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, 113-114 https://libsvcs-1.its.yale.edu/hwcorrespondence/page.asp?vol=13&page=113 Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 London, United Kingdom Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 London, United Kingdom

Julian

 English Congreve, William London

This letter is part of the Primary Texts section of the Thomas Gray Archive.

XML created for the Thomas Gray Archive.

This letter is part of the correspondence calendar of the complete correspondence of Thomas Gray. The calendar contains detailed bibliographic records for all known original, copied, or published letters written by or to the poet as well as the full-text, where available. Each record is accompanied by digitised images of the manuscript, where available, or digitised images of the first printed edition.

 Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF)

To The Honble Mr Horace Walpole at Chelsea
Penny Post Paid

[           ]

The best News from Cornhill-shire is, that I have a little fever, which denies me the pleasure of seeing either You, or Alexander, or Downing-Street to day, but when that leaves me at my own Disposal, I shall be at yours; Covent-Garden has given me a Sort of Surfeit of Mr Rich & his Cleverness, for I was at the Way of the World, when the Machine broke t'other Night; the House was in Amaze for above a Minute, & I dare say a great many in the Galleries thought it very dextrously perform'd, & that they scream'd as naturally, as heart could wish; till they found it was no jest by their calling for Surgeons; of whom several luckily happen'd to be in the Pit: I stayed to see the poor creatures brought out of the House, & pity poor Mrs Buchanan not a little, whom I saw put into a Chair in such a fright, that as she is big with child, I question whether it may not kill her,

I am Yours ever T: G: