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Thomas Gray to Norton Nicholls, 26 January 1769

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Are you not well, or what has happen'd to you? it is better than three weeks since I wrote to you (by Norwich & Yarmouth) to say, I was return'd hither, & hoped to see you; that Trin: Hall Lodge would be vacant, as Hallifax told me, to receive Mrs N: & you, & we expected you with impatience. I have had a sore throat, & now am getting well of ye gout. Mason will be here on Tuesday. Palgrave keeps Lent at home & wants to be ask'd to break it. Dr Law has bit at the Bishoprick, & gives up near 800£ a-year to enjoy it: Dr Ross has his Prebend of Durham.

Adieu, I am
Yours
T G:

Duty to Mamma.

Pemb: Hall. Jan: 26. 1769.
Letter ID: letters.0549 (Source: TEI/XML)

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 52
Addressee: Nicholls, Norton, c. 1742-1809
Addressee's age: 27[?]

Dates

Date of composition: 26 January 1769
Date (on letter): Jan: 26. 1769
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Address (on letter): Pemb: Hall

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 1 page

Content

Language: English
Incipit: Are you not well, or what has happen'd to you? it is better than three weeks...
Mentioned: Cambridge
Mason, William, 1724-1797
Palgrave, William, 1735-1799

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
College Library, Eton College , Windsor, UK <http://www.etoncollege.com/collegelibrary.aspx>
Availability: The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes; bound into a copy of Mathias's Works of Thomas Gray (London, 1814), vol. II, part 2; a photocopy is at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, OSB MSS c 467, box 1, folder 79

Print Versions

  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, letter XVIII, vol. v, 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. CCCXLII, vol. iii, 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. 491, vol. iii, 1054-1055