Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, 21 June 1767
To
Dr Wharton at Old-Park
near Darlington
Durham
ROTHERHAM
Here we are, Mr Brown & I, in a wilderness of sweets, an Elysium among the coal-pits, a terrestrial heaven. mind, it is not I, but Mason, that says all this, & bids me tell it you. tomorrow we visit Dovedale & the Wonders of the Peak, the Monday following we go to York to reside, & two or three days after set out for Old-Park, where I shall remain upon your hands; & Mr Brown about the time of Durham-races must go on to Gibside, & for ought I know to Glamis: Mason remains tied down to his Minster for half a year. he & Mr B: desire their best compliments to you & Mrs Wharton.
I am ever Yours,
Mr. B: owns the pleasantest day he ever past was yesterday at Roche-Abbey. it is indeed divine.
Correspondents
Dates
Places
Physical description
Content
Brown, James, 1709-1784
Dovedale
Gibside
Glamis
Mason, William, 1724-1797
Peak, The
Roche Abbey
Holding Institution
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 176-177, 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 CXXIX, vol. ii, 478
- The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter CXL, vol. iv, 86-87
- 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. CCCIII, vol. iii, 146
- 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. 445, vol. iii, 964