Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole (29 August 1756) 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. 223, vol. ii, 478 http://www.e-enlightenment.com/search/letters/print/?printref_sourceedition=graythOU0084&printref_docnumber=223 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. 198, vol. ii, 162-163 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/TyP_1915ii/1/162 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, 92 https://libsvcs-1.its.yale.edu/hwcorrespondence/page.asp?vol=14&page=92 Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 Stoke Poges, United Kingdom Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 London, United Kingdom

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To The Honble Horace Walpole in Arlington Street London
30 AV

Stoke. Aug: 29. 1756.

Not exactly knowing the time of your return, I had the day before I received your Letter, accepted an invitation from Mr Chute to come to the Vine. he is now actually at Windsor expecting to carry me thither tomorrow & insists upon his priority. as soon as ever I come back I shall send to know, if you are visible, & am ever

Yours TG: