Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, [17 December 1752]
To
The Honble Horace Walpole Esq
in Arlington Street
London
SAFFRON WALDEN 18 DE
Camb:ge Dec: 17. Sunday.
I sent to Dodsley some time since, who wrote to me by your order, what little alterations I had to make, & should be glad to know, whether you thought them for the better or the worse. he tells me now, he could finish in a fortnight, if I were in town, but this would be very inconvenient to me at present, so I must have the Sheets sent me to correct hither, & I suppose, it may come out in less than a Month ....
[ ] . . . you may imagine, I do not expect any thing very particular on either of these subjects, but some sort of satisfaction you will easily know how to give me in a letter; as it will be a good while, before I can see you.
Adieu, I am ever
Yours
Yours
T G.
Have you read Mad: Maintenon's Letters? or the Micromegas, or the dull Life of Dr Tillotson. I have gone thro' the 3d Vol: of the Biographia, wch will be a great Relief to you after Bayle's pedantic bawdy: all the Lives, mark'd with an E or a C, have something curious in them, those with a G are abominable foolish.
I have just received the first Proofs from Dodsly. I thought it was to be a Qto, but it is a little Folio. the Stanzas are number'd, wch I do not like.
Letter ID:
letters.0196 (Source: TEI/XML)
Correspondents
Writer's age: 36
Addressee's age: 35
Dates
Date (on letter): Dec: 17. Sunday
Calendar: Gregorian
Places
Address (on letter): Camb:ge
Physical description
Addressed: To / The Honble Horace Walpole Esq / in Arlington Street / London (postmark: SAFFRON WALDEN 18 DE)
Content
Language: English
Incipit: I sent to Dodsley some time since, who wrote to me by your order,...
Mentioned: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley (1753)
Biographia Britannica
Bayle, Pierre
Birch, Thomas
Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764
Maintenon, Mme de
Voltaire
Biographia Britannica
Bayle, Pierre
Birch, Thomas
Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764
Maintenon, Mme de
Voltaire
Holding Institution
Location:
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GBR/1058/GRA/3/4/56, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge , Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
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GBR/1058/GRA/3/4/56, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge , Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
Availability: The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes
Print Versions
- 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. 181, vol. ii, 125-127
- 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, 61-62
- 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. 170, vol. i, 366-367