Thomas Gray to William Mason (23 May 1765) 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. 404, vol. ii, 876-877 http://www.e-enlightenment.com/search/letters/print/?printref_sourceedition=graythOU0084&printref_docnumber=404 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 LXXXIX, 337-339 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/MiJ_1853/1/337 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. CCLXXI, vol. iii, 74-75 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/ToD_1900iii/1/74 Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 London, United Kingdom Mason, William, 1724-1797 York, United Kingdom

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To The Revd Mr Mason, Precentor of the Cathedral of York
23 MA

Jermyn-Street. May 23. Dear Mason

In my way into the remote parts of the North I mean to make you a visit at York. probably you will see me there on Wednesday next in the evening. it is your business to consider, whether you have a house & a bed for me, for I shall stay there a week perhaps, if you continue agreeable so long. I have been in Town this month, every day teeming with prodigies. I suppose you receive expresses every three hours, & therefore I pass over the Regency-bill, the Weaver's petition, the siege of Bedford-House, the riot on Ludgate-Hill, the royal embassy to Hayes, the Carte-Blanche refused with disdain, the subversion of the Ministry, wch fights to the last gasp, & afterwards, like the Man, che combattea, ed era morto, & yet stands upon its legs, & spits in its Master's face to this day, because no body will deign to take its place; the House of Commons standing at gaze with its hands before it; the House of Lords bullying the Justices of Peace, and fining the Printers; the King —— &c: &c: o o the rest is left to oral tradition.

Adieu!