William Mason to Thomas Gray, 28 November 1760
I send you the Elegy, You will find I have alterd all the things you mark'd and some perhaps I have improvd. Mr Wood thinks the conclusion equal enough to the rest, therefore I have venturd to send a Copy to Lord Holdernesse. But I hope to have your scratches upon that part also soon. I wish you would let your Servant take a Copy and send it to Mr Brown to whom I talked about it. When I was at Cambridge I saw a great deal of Onley, & am very sanguine in my hopes that his Pupillage will not turn out ill. Dr Axton came down when I was there & entertaind us much with his Beaver & Camblet surtout. Do write to me soon & promise yourself that Ill be as regular a Correspondent for the future as I have always been
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Print Versions
- The Correspondence of Thomas Gray and William Mason, with Letters to the Rev. James Brown, D.D. Ed. by the Rev. John Mitford. London: Richard Bentley, 1853, letter LX, 230-231
- 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. CCXIII, vol. ii, 177-178
- 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. 326, vol. ii, 712-713