Richard West to Thomas Gray and Horace Walpole (24 September 1739) 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. 69, vol. i, 119-120 http://www.e-enlightenment.com/search/letters/print/?printref_sourceedition=graythOU0084&printref_docnumber=69 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. 100, vol. i, 243-244 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/TyP_1915i/1/243 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, 184 https://libsvcs-1.its.yale.edu/hwcorrespondence/page.asp?vol=13&page=184 West, Richard, 1716-1742 London, United Kingdom Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 Paris, France

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To Horace Walpole Esqr. au soin de Monsieur Alexander, Banquier, à Paris, France
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MOI R WEST.

Comme nous avons entendu par notre fidel & bon ami Thomas Ashton, que vous, Tho. Gray & Hor. Walpole, nos anciens & bienaimez alliés, vous êtes fachés un peu, de ce que nous n'avons pas ecrit ce long tems, ni à l'un ni l'autre, & que vous le considerez tous deux comme un contrevention de nôtre amitié, Nous de notre bonne volunté promettons pour le futur d'être plus exacts en nôtre correspondance, &, parceque nous avons envie de continuer la paix & la tranquilité, qui ont été de tout tems entre nous trois, nous sommes resolus en plein conseil de vous demander pardon, &, au lieu que nous pouvions nous plaindre de vous à nôtre tour, & rejetter la faute sur vous, á la mode Espagnole, nous au contraire, pour donner à l'Europe un exemple de nôtre moderation, avouons que nous sommes coupables, & vous prions, de nous continuer vôtre amitié, & correspondance.

Signé. Moi RW. Soussigné. Grimalkin, premier Chat.

I hope this silly, unmeaning thing won't be open'd & stop't at the post.

 Adieu! Mes chers – Temple. Septr. 24.