Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, 17 February 1757
To
Dr Thomas Wharton M:D:
in King's Arms Yard
Coleman Street
London
18 FE
I can not help thanking you for your kind letter, tho' I have nothing essential to inform you of in return. Ld S: & his brother are come back, & in some measure rid me of my apprehensions for the College. S:l is gone to Town, but (as he assures me) not to stay above a week. you advise me to be happy, & would to God it depended upon your wishes. a part of what I imagined, has already happen'd here, tho' not in the way I expected. in a way indeed, that confutes itself, & therefore (as I am told) makes no impression on the hearers. but I will not answer for the truth of this: at least such, as are strangers to me, may be influenced by it. however tho' I know the quarter, whence it comes, I can not interpose at present, lest I make the matter worse. judge you of my happiness, may yours never meet with any cloud or interruption.
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Egerton MS 2400, ff. 90-91, Manuscripts collection, British Library , London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
Print Versions
- The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section IV, letter LVI, vol. ii, 279-280
- The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter LXIV, vol. iii, 157-158
- 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. CXXXVII, vol. i, 327-328
- 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. 233, vol. ii, 495