Thomas Gray to Norton Nicholls, 2 January 1769
To The Revd Mr Nicholls at Blundeston near Leostoffe Suffolk By Yarmouth
CAMBRIDGE
Here am I once again, & have sold my estate, & got a thousand guineas, & fourscore pound a year for my old Aunt, & a 20£ prize in the lottery, & Lord knows what arrears in the Treasury, & am a rich Fellow enough, go to; & a Fellow, that hath had losses, & one, that hath two gowns, & every thing handsome about him! & in a few days I shall have curtains, are you avised of that; ay, & a matterass to lie upon.
And there's Dr Hallifax tells me, there are three or four fellow-commoners got into the lodge. but they will be out in a week's time, & all ready for Mrs Nicholls's reception & yours. so do your pleasures, I invite nobody. and there's Dr Thomas may be Bp of Carlisle, if he pleases; & (if not) Dr. Powell: & in the first case Dr Ross will be Dean of Ely and so I am
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- The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W[illiam]. Mason. York: printed by A. Ward; and sold by J. Dodsley, London; and J. Todd, York, 1775, letter ii, section v, 346-347
- The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, letter XVII, vol. v, 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. CCCXLI, vol. iii, 218-219
- 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. 490, vol. iii, 1053-1054