Thomas Gray to William Mason (21 September 1753) 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. 180, vol. i, 380-381 http://www.e-enlightenment.com/search/letters/print/?printref_sourceedition=graythOU0084&printref_docnumber=180 The Correspondence of Thomas Gray and William Mason, with Letters to the Rev. James Brown, D.D. Ed. by the Rev. John Mitford. London: Richard Bentley, 1853, letter IV, 16-17 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/MiJ_1853/1/16 The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W[illiam]. Mason. York: printed by A. Ward; and sold by J. Dodsley, London; and J. Todd, York, 1775, letter xviii, section iv, 229 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/1775/1/229 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. CVII, vol. i, 236-237 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/ToD_1900i/1/236 The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section IV, letter XLII, vol. ii, 243-244 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/MiJ_1816ii/1/243 The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter XLIX, vol. iii, 116-118 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/MiJ_1843iii/1/116 The Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. in one. London: J. Sharpe, 1819, letter LXXXVI, vol. i, 181-182 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/1819/1/181 The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by Thomas James Mathias. London: William Bulmer, 1814, section IV, letter XVIII, vol. i, 339-340 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/MaW_1814i/1/339 Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 Durham, United Kingdom Mason, William, 1724-1797 Durham, United Kingdom

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 English Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794 Hull

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 Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Durham. Sept: 21. Dear Mason,

It is but a few days, since I was inform'd by Avison, that the alarm you had on your sister's account served but to prepare you for a greater Loss, wch was soon to follow. I know, what it is to lose a Person, that one's eyes & heart have long been used to, & I never desire to part with the remembrance of that loss, nor would wish you should. it is something, that you had a little time to acquaint yourself with the Idea beforehand (if I am inform'd right) & that He probably suffer'd but little pain, the only thing that makes death terrible.

It will now no longer be proper for me to see you at Hull as I should otherwise have tried to do. I shall go therefore to York with intention to make use of the Stage-Coach either on Friday or Monday. I shall be a week at Cambridge, & then pass thro' London into Buckinghamshire. if I can be of any use to you in any thing it will give me great pleasure. let me have a line from you soon, for I am very affectionately

Yours T. GRAY