Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole (31 January 1764) 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. 384, vol. ii, 830-831 http://www.e-enlightenment.com/search/letters/print/?printref_sourceedition=graythOU0084&printref_docnumber=384 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. 225, vol. ii, 224-225 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/TyP_1915ii/1/224 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, 132 https://libsvcs-1.its.yale.edu/hwcorrespondence/page.asp?vol=14&page=132 Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 Cambridge, United Kingdom Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 London, United Kingdom

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To The Honble Horace Walpole Esq in Arlington Street London
SAFFRON WALDEN 1 FE

Tuesday

And so I must stay two, if not three days longer for my books! they are to come by the Cambridge Fly, wch sets out from the Queen's Head in Grey's-Inn Lane. Mr Mason is here, but talks of going to London tomorrow, where he will be at Ld Delaware's House.

All letters to & from this place, that seem to promise any thing, are open'd (I hear) at the Gen: Post-Office.