Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton (21 June 1767) Alexander Huber Editor Thomas Gray Archive
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 UK London British Library Manuscripts collection Egerton MS 2400, ff. 176-177 1 page 232 mm x 189 mm

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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. 445, vol. iii, 964 http://www.e-enlightenment.com/search/letters/print/?printref_sourceedition=graythOU0084&printref_docnumber=445 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. CCCIII, vol. iii, 146 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/ToD_1900iii/1/146 The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section IV, letter CXXIX, vol. ii, 478 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/MiJ_1816ii/1/478 The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter CXL, vol. iv, 86-87 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/MiJ_1843iv/1/86 Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 Aston, United Kingdom Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794 Durham, United Kingdom

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 English Brown, James, 1709-1784 Mason, William, 1724-1797 Roche Abbey Peak, The Glamis Gibside Dovedale Aston

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To Dr Wharton at Old-Park near Darlington Durham
ROTHERHAM

Sunday. 21 June. 1767. Aston. Dear Doctor

Here we are, Mr Brown & I, in a wilderness of sweets, an Elysium among the coal-pits, a terrestrial heaven. mind, it is not I, but Mason, that says all this, & bids me tell it you. tomorrow we visit Dovedale & the Wonders of the Peak, the Monday following we go to York to reside, & two or three days after set out for Old-Park, where I shall remain upon your hands; & Mr Brown about the time of Durham-races must go on to Gibside, & for ought I know to Glamis: Mason remains tied down to his Minster for half a year. he & Mr B: desire their best compliments to you & Mrs Wharton.

Adieu! I am ever Yours, T GRAY.

Mr. B: owns the pleasantest day he ever past was yesterday at Roche-Abbey. it is indeed divine.