Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole (26 May 1769) 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. 495, vol. iii, 1060-1061 http://www.e-enlightenment.com/search/letters/print/?printref_sourceedition=graythOU0084&printref_docnumber=495 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. 245, vol. ii, 292 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/TyP_1915ii/1/292 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, 185 https://libsvcs-1.its.yale.edu/hwcorrespondence/page.asp?vol=14&page=185 Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 Cambridge, United Kingdom Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 London, United Kingdom

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 English Cole, William, 1714-1782 Linnæus Granger, James Waterbeach

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To The Honble Horace Walpole in Arlington Street London
27 MA

Pembroke-Hall. 26 May. 1769

Old Cole lives at Water-Beach near the road from Cambridge to Ely: but I believe, you had best send the book to me, & I will take care it shall be deliver'd to him. I have not seen it yet, but propose to buy it on your recommendation. if it has a hundrdth part of Linnæus's merit, it must be divine! what the title means, I do not conceive.