Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton (17 July 1769) Alexander Huber Editor Thomas Gray Archive
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 UK London British Library Manuscripts collection Egerton MS 2400, ff. 189-190 1 page 222 mm x 182 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. 502, vol. iii, 1072-1073 http://www.e-enlightenment.com/search/letters/print/?printref_sourceedition=graythOU0084&printref_docnumber=502 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. CCCXLIX, vol. iii, 230 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/ToD_1900iii/1/230 The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section V, letter V, vol. ii, 518 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/MiJ_1816ii/1/518 The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section V, letter VI, vol. iv, 139-142 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/MiJ_1843iv/1/139 Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 Cambridge, United Kingdom Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794 Durham, United Kingdom

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 English Brown, James, 1709-1784 Mason, William, 1724-1797 York Skiddaw Old Park Lancashire Keswick Aston

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To Thomas Wharton Esq of Old-Park near Darlington Durham to be left at Sunderland-Bridge
CAMBRIDGE

17 July 1769. Pemb: Coll: Dear Doctor

Mason being in residence at York, I lay aside my first design of going obliquely to Aston, & thence to Keswick; & set out with Mr Brown tomorrow the common northern road. we shall probably pass two or three days at York, & then come to Old-Park. about the end of August we may cross the Apennine, & visit M: Skiddaw, when Mason may accompany or meet us on our way, & so you drop me there to find my way thro' the deserts of Lancashire in my return homewards.

I am so fat, that I have suffer'd more from heat this last fortnight, than ever I did in Italy. the Thermom: usually at 75, & (in the sun) at 116. my respects to Mrs Wh: & the family.

I am ever Yours T G: