Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole (29 December 1736) 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. 35, vol. i, 58-59 http://www.e-enlightenment.com/search/letters/print/?printref_sourceedition=graythOU0084&printref_docnumber=35 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. 50, vol. i, 116-117 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/TyP_1915i/1/116 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, 119-120 https://libsvcs-1.its.yale.edu/hwcorrespondence/page.asp?vol=13&page=119 Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 Cambridge, United Kingdom Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 London, United Kingdom

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 English Ashton, Thomas, 1715-1775 West, Richard, 1716-1742 [Latin verses at Eton] Tibullus Craftsman Cambridge

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To The Honrble Horace Walpole Esq, at the Treasury, Westminster
CAMBRIDGE 29 DE

My Dear Horace

I think this is the first time, I have had any Occasion to find fault with Sr R:s Male-Administration, and if he should keep you in town another Week, I don't know whether I shan't change my Side, & write a Craftsman; I am extreme Sorry, I could not dine with you last Sunday, but I really was engaged at Peter-house, & did not know of the honour you intended me, till night; if it had not been for a great cold I had got, I certainly should have come post to Supper: I engage myself to drink Tea with you at King's the day after to morrow, for then we expect you; I mean me, for Ashton is to try not to expect you then: I believe I shall stay here till February, so pray, come hither, if that can be any part of a reason for it: the Moderatour has asked me to make the Tripos-Verses this year; they say the University has sent a Letter by the Post to thank my Lord Townsend for the Statue! I have had a Letter from West with an Elegy of Tibullus translated in it, thus long; I have wrote you a letter with 50 I's in it, besides me's and we's, and I am,

Ever Yours T: GRAY Wednesday – Cambridge