Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole (19 September 1763) 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. 377, vol. ii, 818-819 http://www.e-enlightenment.com/search/letters/print/?printref_sourceedition=graythOU0084&printref_docnumber=377 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. 223, vol. ii, 219-221 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/TyP_1915ii/1/219 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, 129-130 https://libsvcs-1.its.yale.edu/hwcorrespondence/page.asp?vol=14&page=129 Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 Cambridge, United Kingdom Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 London, United Kingdom

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 English Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 Tilenus, Daniel Herbert, George Herbert of Cherbury, 1st Baron Grotius, Hugo

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To the Honble Horace Walpole in Arlington Street London
ROYSTON 20 SE

Positively I can make nothing of St Islee, & thought myself sure, it was Chantilly; & even believe so still, not having the book before me.

To be sure I look'd in Grotius' Epistles the first thing I did: he writes to no body with a name at all similar. but in the little book of this Ld Herberts Verses, publish'd by the Divine Herbert after his death, is a thing addressed, to Tilenus after the fatal defluxion upon my arm. Now Daniel Tilenus was a great theological Writer of that time: he wrote about Antichrist, & Animadversions on the Synod of Dort, &c: & some of his works were publish'd (I see) at Paris. he was however a Silesian, & his true name might well be Tieleners; & as Grotius was also a deep Divine, he might well be acquainted with him, as well as Ld Herbert.

Do not lay your learning upon me, for I no more desire the title of Clarissimus & Celeberrimus, than you do. a Collecter of Antiquities, whose work (yet unpublish'd) I have before me, cites you under the name of the lively Editor of the Cat: of Noble Authors. will that satisfy you better?

I give you many thanks for your political riddles: before I print them, I shall send you a List of my doubts & difficulties, for I don't understand a word of the matter. I wonder, you should think folly less entertaining than wisdom. you, who live next door to the Theatre, may be as fastidious as you please, & disdain to cast an eye on Garrick above once in a year. I, who live in the country, am excusable, if I go every night to see a troop of Strollers in a barn, as long as they stay.

Adieu, I am ever Yours.