Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole (22 July 1755) 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. 198, vol. i, 426 http://www.e-enlightenment.com/search/letters/print/?printref_sourceedition=graythOU0084&printref_docnumber=198 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. 190, vol. ii, 149-150 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/TyP_1915ii/1/149 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. ii, 83 https://libsvcs-1.its.yale.edu/hwcorrespondence/page.asp?vol=14&page=83 Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 Vyne, The, United Kingdom Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 London, United Kingdom

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To The Honble Horace Walpole Esq in Arlington Street London
BASINGSTOKE

The Vine. Tuesday. July 22. Dear Sr

I shall be very sorry, if I have been the occasiō of interrupting any party or design of yours. when Mr C: thought to carry me to the Vine, I was hardly recover'd from a fit of the Gout, & was obliged to delay my journey thither till the week afterwards; and the uncertainty of my own motions has made me defer answering your message without reflecting, that it might be troublesome to you. my intention is to wait upon you tomorrow se'nnight at Strawberry: if you go to Col. Conway's, or have any other design, that makes mine inconvenient to you at present, be so good to let me know, at this place, where I shall stay till the end of this week. we return'd yesterday night from Portsmouth, Southampton, & Winchester. I leave to Mr Ch: (who will write next post) to display to you all the beauties of Netley-Abbey. the two Views of this House go on apace, & grow every day under our eyes.

Adieu, I am ever Yours T G: