Correspondence with Ashton, Thomas

• Archive Work ID: letters.ashton_thomas
• Correspondent: Ashton, Thomas
• Language: English
• Date Range: 1738-1742
• Summary: 7 letters (7 from Gray), dated between 1738 and 1742.

3 Manuscripts:

• • Archive MS ID: letters.0058 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: Gray, Thomas to Ashton, Thomas
  • Date: [30 June 1738]
  • Language: English
  • Location: Private collection
  • Alternate Form: Sotheby's, 21 July 1981, Lot 500, sold to Bolus; a photocopy is at the British Library, RP 2202; a MS transcript is at the British Library, Add. MSS 32562, ff. 140-141
  • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 54, vol. i, 87-88; Correspondence (1915), letter no. 80, vol. i, 187-189; Gray and his Friends (1890), section I, letter no. 1, 37-38; Letters (1900-12), letter no. X, vol. i, 11-12
  • Contents: Incipit: "It seems you have forgot the poor little tenement in which you". Sent from Cambridge. to [London]. Julian calendar. Dateline: "June 30". Address: "Cambridge". Envelope (front): "To / Mr Ashton, at the Honble Mrs Lewis's, / in Hanover Square, London".
  • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: letters.0075 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: Gray, Thomas and Walpole, Horace to Ashton, Thomas
  • Date: [July 1739]
  • Language: English
  • Location: Private collection
  • Alternate Form: Sotheby's, 21 July 1981, Lot 501, owned by Lawrence G. Blackmon; a photocopy is at the British Library, RP 3096; a MS transcript is at the British Library, Add. MSS 32562, ff. 151-152
  • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 65, vol. i, 114-115; Correspondence (1915), letter no. 96, vol. i, 236-237; Gray and his Friends (1890), section I, letter no. 4, 45-47; Letters (1900-12), letter no. XX, vol. i, 32-33; Walpole's Correspondence (1948), vol. i, 176-177
  • Contents: Incipit: "The exceeding Slowness and Sterility of me, & this Place". Sent from Reims. to [London]. Dateline: "July". Address: "Rheims". Envelope (front): "To / Mr Ashton at Mrs Lewes's / Hanover Square London. / Franc à Paris. / pour l'Angleterre".
  • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: letters.0097 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: Gray, Thomas and Walpole, Horace to Ashton, Thomas
  • Date: [14 May 1740]
  • Language: English
  • Location: Private collection
  • Alternate Form: a photograph is at Pembroke College, Cambridge, GBR/1058/GRA/5/4; a MS transcript is at the British Library, Add. MSS 32562, ff. 128-134; a photostat is in MS. Toynbee c.2, Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 85, vol. i, 152-155; Gray and his Friends (1890), section I, letter no. 6, 49-54; Correspondence (1915), letter no. 117, vol. i, 293-297; Letters (1900-12), postscript, letter no. XXXVII, vol. i, 63-65; Walpole's Correspondence (1948), vol. i, 214-218
  • Contents: Incipit: "Boileau's Discord dwelt in a College of Monks. At present the Lady". Sent from Rome. Dateline: "May 14, 1740. N.S.". Address: "Rome".
  • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.