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Correspondence with Brown, James

    • Archive Work ID: letters.brown_james
    • Correspondent: Brown, James
    • Language: English
    • Date Range: 1753-1771
    • Summary: 43 letters (43 from Gray), dated between 1753 and 1771.

    43 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0208 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [24 July 1753]
      • Physical Description: A.L.S.; envelope, 1 page
      • Language: English
      • Location: PML 16518 (extra-illustrated copy of Gray's Odes), 5, Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts (LHMS), Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA <http://www.themorgan.org/collection>
      • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford. Both Mitford (1853) and Tovey (1900) erroneously give Mason as the addressee.
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 179, vol. i, 379-380; Correspondence (1853), letter III, 13-16; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CVI, vol. i, 235-236
      • Contents: Incipit: "We perform'd our journey, a very agreeable one, within the time". Sent from Durham. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "July 24. Tuesday". Address: "Durham". Envelope (front): "To / The Revd Mr Brown, M:A: / President of Pembroke Hall Cambridge / By Caxton" Postmark: "DURHAM". In the 1753 letter he gives details of his trip to Durham and the surroundings there;.
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: letters.0274 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 25 July 1757
      • Language: English
      • Location: Mary Couts Burnett Library, W. L. Lewis Collection, Texas Christian University Library, Fort Worth, TX, USA <https://library.tcu.edu/spcoll/>
      • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 241, vol. ii, 508-511; Correspondence (1853), letter XX, 89-91; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXLIII, vol. i, 340-342
      • Contents: Incipit: "I thank you for the second little letter, for your Cambridge-Anecdotes,". Sent from Stoke Poges. Dateline: "July. 25. 1757". Address: "Stoke".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0278 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 14 August 1757
      • Physical Description: A.L.S.; envelope, 1 page
      • Language: English
      • Location: PML 16518 (extra-illustrated copy of Gray's Odes), 3, Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts (LHMS), Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA <http://www.themorgan.org/collection>
      • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 245, vol. ii, 516; Correspondence (1853), letter XXII, 93-94; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXLV, vol. i, 344
      • Contents: Incipit: "Excuse me, if I begin to wonder a little, that I have heard no news of you". Sent from [Stoke Poges]. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Aug: 14. 1757". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Brown M:A: President of Pembroke Hall Cambridge" Postmark: "16 AV". [I]n the 1757 letter Gray asks if Brown received "Dodsley's packet," asks how the Odes has been received at Cambridge, says he has been confined at home, and notes that he has acquired "some volumes of the Great French Encyclopedie.".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0322 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 7 September 1758
      • Physical Description: A.L.S., 1s. (2p.)
      • Language: English
      • Location: Houghton Library, Lowell autograph, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA <http://library.harvard.edu/>
      • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 279, vol. ii, 587-589; Correspondence (1853), letter XXXVII, 157-161; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLXXIV, vol. ii, 52-54
      • Contents: Incipit: "It is always time to write, (whether Louisbourg be taken, or not) & I am". Sent from [Stoke Poges]. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Sept: 7. 1758". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Brown, M:A:, President of Pembroke Hall Cambridge" Postmark: "8 SE".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0324 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [28 October 1758]
      • Language: English
      • Location: [unlocated]
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 281, vol. ii, 590-591; Correspondence (1853), letter XXXVIII, 161-162; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CLXXVI, vol. ii, 56-58
      • Contents: Incipit: "You will not imagine me the less grateful for the long letter you were". Sent from [Stoke Poges].
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0339 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [28 May 1759]
      • Language: English
      • Location: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK <http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/aboutus/msspb>
      • Alternate Form: a photograph is at Pembroke College, Cambridge, GBR/1058/GRA/5/4; a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 294, vol. ii, 622-623; Correspondence (1853), letter XLIX, 195-197; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXCV, vol. ii, 113-114
      • Contents: Incipit: "You will receive tomorrow Caractacus piping hot, I hope before". Sent from [London]. to [Cambridge]. Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Brown, President of Pembroke-Hall Cambridge" Postmark: "29 MA".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0344 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 8 August 1759
      • Language: English
      • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 299, vol. ii, 632-633; Correspondence (1853), letter XLVI, 186-188; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXC, vol. ii, 94-96
      • Contents: Incipit: "The season for triumph is at last come; I mean for our Allies,". Sent from London. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Aug: 8. 1759". Address: "At Mr Jauncey's, Southampton-Row, Bloomsbury". Envelope (front): "To the Revd James Brown M:A: President of Pembroke-Hall Cambridge" Postmark: "8 AV".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.


      • Archive MS ID: letters.0356 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [28 March 1760]
      • Language: English
      • Location: Library, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA <http://www.hsp.org/>
      • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 309, vol. ii, 662-664; Correspondence (1853), letter LI, 200-203; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXCIX, vol. ii, 128-131
      • Contents: Incipit: "I received the little letter, & the inclosed, wch was a summons". Sent from [London].
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0364 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [26 July 1760]
      • Language: English
      • Location: Private collection
      • Alternate Form: Christie's, 14 June 1979 (A. A. Houghton Sale), Lot 237, sold to Fleming
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 316, vol. ii, 687-688; Correspondence (1853), letter LIV, 212-214; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCV, vol. ii, 156-158
      • Contents: Incipit: "I guess what the packet is, and desire you would keep it, for I am". Sent from [London]. Dateline: "July, 1760".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0371 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 23 October 1760
      • Language: English
      • Location: Library, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA <http://www.hsp.org/>
      • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 322, vol. ii, 706-707; Correspondence (1853), letter LVII, 223-226; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCX, vol. ii, 170-172
      • Contents: Incipit: "I am obliged to you for your Letter, & the Bills enclosed, wch I shall". Sent from London. Dateline: "Oct: 23. 1760". Address: "South:n. Row".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: letters.0372 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 25 October 1760
      • Physical Description: A.L.S.; envelope, 1 page
      • Language: English
      • Location: Private collection
      • Alternate Form: owned (2008) by Stuart Lutz, Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, 784 Morris Turnpike, Box No. 161, Short Hills, NJ 07078, USA
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 323, vol. ii, 708; Correspondence (1853), letter LVIII, 226-227; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXI, vol. ii, 173
      • Contents: Incipit: "You will wonder at another letter so soon. it is only to tell you,". Sent from [London]. Dateline: "Oct: 25. 1760". Envelope (front): "To / The Revd Mr Brown, President / of Pembroke-Hall / Cambridge" Postmark: "25 OC".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0375 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 8 November 1760
      • Physical Description: A.L., 3 pages
      • Language: English
      • Location: College Library, Eton College, Windsor, UK <http://www.etoncollege.com/collegelibrary.aspx>
      • Alternate Form: bound into a copy of Mathias's Works of Thomas Gray (London, 1814), vol. II, part 2
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 325, vol. ii, 710-712; Correspondence (1853), letter LIX, 227-230; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXII, vol. ii, 173-177
      • Contents: Incipit: "You will excuse me, if I write you a little news in this busy time,". Sent from London. Dateline: "Nov: 8. 1760". Address: "London".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0382 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 9 February 1761
      • Physical Description: A.L.; envelope, 3 pages
      • Language: English
      • Location: College Library, Eton College, Windsor, UK <http://www.etoncollege.com/collegelibrary.aspx>
      • Alternate Form: bound into a copy of Mathias's Works of Thomas Gray (London, 1814), vol. II, part 2
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 332, vol. ii, 733-735; Correspondence (1853), letter LXV, 254-259; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXIX, vol. ii, 209-212
      • Contents: Incipit: "If I have not sooner made answer to your kind enquiries, it has been owing". Sent from London. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Feb: 9. 1761". Address: "London". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Brown M:A: President of Pembroke Hall Cambridge" Postmark: "10 FE".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0385 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 26 May 1761
      • Language: English
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/3/3/1, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 334, vol. ii, 738-739; Correspondence (1853), letter LXVI, 260-262; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXXI, vol. ii, 214-215
      • Contents: Incipit: "I thank you for your kind enquiries & impatience about me.". Sent from [London]. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "May 26. 1761". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Brown M:A: President of Pembroke Hall Cambridge" Postmark: "26 MA GR".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0386 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [13 June 1761]
      • Language: English
      • Location: [unlocated]
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 335, vol. ii, 739-740; Correspondence (1853), letter LV, 215; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCVI, vol. ii, 159
      • Contents: Incipit: "This is to inform you that I hope to see you on Monday night at Cambridge.". Sent from [London]. Dateline: "Saturday".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.


      • Archive MS ID: letters.0396 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 24 September 1761
      • Language: English
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/3/3/2, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 345, vol. ii, 752-758; Correspondence (1853), letter LXX, 269-277; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXXIX, vol. ii, 228-237
      • Contents: Incipit: "I set out at half an hour past four in the morning for the Coronation,". Sent from London. Dateline: "Sept: 24. 1761". Address: "London".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0398 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 22 October 1761
      • Language: English
      • Location: Private collection
      • Alternate Form: a MS copy is at Pembroke College, Cambridge, GBR/1058/GRA/5/6; Christie's, 14 June 1979 (A. A. Houghton Sale), Lot 237, sold to Fleming
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 347, vol. ii, 759-761; The Athenæum, 21 Feb. 1891, printed by Edmund Gosse; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXXXII, vol. ii, 240-241
      • Contents: Incipit: "I have sent down by Gillam's waggon to-day 28 parcels of different bulks,". Sent from London. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Oct: 22. 1761". Address: "London". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Brown President of Pembroke Hall Cambridge".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0400 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [7 November 1761]
      • Language: English
      • Location: Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 349, vol. ii, 763-764; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXII, 279-283; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXXXIII, vol. ii, 241-244
      • Contents: Incipit: "Your letter has rejoiced me (as you will easily believe) & agreeably". Sent from [London]. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Nov: .. Sat: 1761". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Brown, President of Pembroke Hall Cambridge" Postmark: "7 NO".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0414 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 19 July 1762
      • Language: English
      • Location: Private collection
      • Alternate Form: Christie's, 14 June 1979 (A. A. Houghton Sale), Lot 237, sold to Fleming
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 361, vol. ii, 781-782; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXVII, 291-292; Letters (1900-12), vol. ii, xxxii-xxxiii
      • Contents: Incipit: "After my fortnight's residence at York, I am arrived here.". Sent from Durham. Dateline: "July 19, 1762". Address: "Old Park".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0420 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [17 February 1763 or earlier]
      • Physical Description: A.L., 1 page, 226 mm x 186 mm
      • Language: English
      • Location: Add. MSS 26889, ff. 23-24, Manuscripts collection, British Library, London, UK <https://bl.libguides.com/reference-services/manuscripts>
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 367, vol. ii, 797-798; Memoirs (1775), letter xlv, section iv, 300-301; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 257-258; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXLIX, vol. iii, 8-9; Works (1816), section IV, letter CVI, vol. ii, 410-411; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter CXVII, vol. iv, 6-7; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter CXVII, vol. ii, 73-74; Works (1814), section IV, letter XLV, vol. i, 402-403
      • Contents: Incipit: "You will make my best acknowledgements to Mr Howe, who not content". Sent from [Cambridge].
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0643 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [3 June 1764]
      • Physical Description: A.L.; envelope, 2 pages
      • Language: English
      • Location: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA <http://library.harvard.edu/>
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 388*, vol. iii, 1320-1322
      • Contents: Incipit: "I received Mr Talbot's letter from Bath, & hear today, that he is". Sent from [London]. Envelope (front): "To / the Revd Mr Brown / President of Pembroke Hall, / Cambridge" Postmark: "JV 7".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0445 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [1/8 October 1764]
      • Physical Description: A.L., 2 pages, 226 mm x 188 mm
      • Language: English
      • Location: Add. MSS 19918, f. 17, Manuscripts collection, British Library, London, UK <https://bl.libguides.com/reference-services/manuscripts>
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 392, vol. ii, 843-844; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXXVI, 328-330; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLX, vol. iii, 40-42
      • Contents: Incipit: "I received your letter, before I left London, & sit down to write to you". Sent from Southampton. Dateline: "Monday". Address: "Southampton, at Mr Vining's, Plumber, in High-Steet - - - - -".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0446 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [13 October 1764]
      • Language: English
      • Location: Library, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA <http://www.hsp.org/>
      • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 393, vol. ii, 844-847; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXXV, 323-327; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLXI, vol. iii, 43-46
      • Contents: Incipit: "Since I have been here, I have received from you, & by your means, five letters.". Sent from Southampton. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Oct: 13.". Address: "Southampton". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Brown, President of Pembroke Hall Cambridge" Postmark: "Southampton 13 OC".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0447 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [25 October 1764]
      • Language: English
      • Location: [unlocated]
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 394, vol. ii, 847-849; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXXVII, 331-333; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLXII, vol. iii, 47-48
      • Contents: Incipit: "I am returned from Southampton, since Monday last; have been at Salisbury,". Sent from [London]. Dateline: "Thursday, October 25, 1764". Address: "Jermyn Street".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0448 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [29 October 1764]
      • Language: English
      • Location: [unlocated]
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 395, vol. ii, 849-851; Correspondence (1853), letter LXXXVIII, 334-337; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLXIII, vol. iii, 49-51
      • Contents: Incipit: "I was not able to answer your letter on Saturday, but Delly will certainly". Sent from [London]. Dateline: "Monday, Oct., 29, 1764".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0456 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [14 May 1765]
      • Language: English
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/3/3/3, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 402, vol. ii, 873-874; Correspondence (1853), letter XCIII, 346-348; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLXX, vol. iii, 72-74
      • Contents: Incipit: "I hope to be with you by Thursday or Friday-se'nnight: you will hardly go". Sent from London. Dateline: "Tuesday-night". Address: "London".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: letters.0457 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [20 May 1765]
      • Physical Description: A.L.; envelope, 2 pages, 203 mm x 162 mm
      • Language: English
      • Location: MS. Montagu d. 17, fols. 95-96, Special Collections, Montagu papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK <http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston/finding-resources/locations>
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 403, vol. ii, 874-876
      • Contents: Incipit: "I can not help writing a line, whereas you have reason to expect a volume,". Sent from [London]. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Monday. May 20.". Envelope (front): "To / The Revd Mr Brown, / President of Pembroke Hall / Cambridge" Postmark: "20[...]".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0463 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [15 August 1765]
      • Language: English
      • Location: [unlocated]
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 409, vol. ii, 883-884; Correspondence (1853), letter XCII, 344-346; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLXXV, vol. iii, 80-81
      • Contents: Incipit: "It is true, I have been lately a very indifferent Correspondent,". Sent from Durham. Dateline: "Thursday. Aug:". Address: "Old Park".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: letters.0468 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 2 November 1765
      • Physical Description: A.L.; envelope, 2 (letter)/4 (journal) pages, c. 190 mm x 232 mm (letter)/160 mm x 196 mm (journal)
      • Language: English
      • Location: MS. Montagu d. 17, fols. 97-100, Special Collections, Montagu papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK <http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston/finding-resources/locations>
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 414, vol. ii, 897-898
      • Contents: Incipit: "I am at last return'd to my old Squirrel's nest from the Highlands,". Sent from London. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Novr. 2. 1765". Address: "Jermyn-Street". Envelope (front): "To / The Revd Mr Brown, / President of Pembroke Hall / Cambridge" Postmark: "2 NO".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0476 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 15 May 1766
      • Physical Description: A.L.S., 1s. (2p.)
      • Language: English
      • Location: fMS Eng 945 (18), Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA <http://library.harvard.edu/>
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 421, vol. iii, 924-926; Correspondence (1853), letter XCVII, 356-358; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLXXXII, vol. iii, 105-108
      • Contents: Incipit: "To-morrow morning I set out for Canterbury. If any letter comes, I believe". Sent from London. Dateline: "May 15, 1766". Address: "Jermyn Street".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.


      • Archive MS ID: letters.0487 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 18 November 1766
      • Language: English
      • Location: Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, PA, USA <http://www.rosenbach.org/>
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 431, vol. iii, 945-946; Correspondence (1853), letter CI, 367-368; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXCI, vol. iii, 129-130
      • Contents: Incipit: "I paid the sum abovemention'd this morning at Gillam's Office in". Sent from London. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "18 Nov: 1766". Address: "Jermyn-Street". Envelope (front): "[To The Revd Mr] Brown, President of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge" Postmark: "18 NO".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0497 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [28 May 1767]
      • Language: English
      • Location: [unlocated]
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 441, vol. iii, 958-960; Correspondence (1853), 385-388; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCXCIX, vol. iii, 139-142
      • Contents: Incipit: "How do you do, good Mr. Brown? Do your inclinations begin to draw". Sent from [London].
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.


      • Archive MS ID: letters.0499 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 6 June 1767
      • Language: English
      • Location: Modern (Unbound) Manuscripts and Correspondence, series III, box 7a, folder 16, Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature (RTC01), Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ, USA <http://rbsc.princeton.edu/>
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 443, vol. iii, 961-962; Correspondence (1853), letter CIX, 383-385; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCI, vol. iii, 143-144
      • Contents: Incipit: "My intention is (Deo volente) to come to Cambridge on Friday or Saturday". Sent from London. Dateline: "Saturday, June 6, 1767". Address: "Jermyn Street".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0510 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 31 October 1767
      • Language: English
      • Location: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Frederick W. Hilles Manuscript Collection, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT (Beinecke)/Farmington, CT (Lewis Walpole), USA <http://www.library.yale.edu/>
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 454, vol. iii, 978-979; Correspondence (1853), letter CXVIII, 409-411; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCXII, vol. iii, 160
      • Contents: Incipit: "I have received a letter from Howe, another from Mr Beattie, & a third". Sent from York. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Sat: 31. Oct: 1767". Address: "York". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Brown, President of Pembroke Hall Cambridge".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0532 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 27 April 1768
      • Physical Description: A.L.S., 1s. (3p.)
      • Language: English
      • Location: fMS Eng 870 (52a), Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA <http://library.harvard.edu/>
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 476, vol. iii, 1030-1032; Correspondence (1853), letter CXX, 415-417; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCXXVII, vol. iii, 195-197
      • Contents: Incipit: "By this time I conclude, you are return'd to Cambridge: tho' I thought it". Sent from London. Dateline: "April 27, 1768". Address: "Southampton Row".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.


      • Archive MS ID: letters.0563 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [10 October 1769]
      • Language: English
      • Location: [unlocated]
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 504, vol. iii, 1074; Correspondence (1853), letter CXXVI, 432; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCLI, vol. iii, 232
      • Contents: Incipit: "I set out on the 29th September, with poor Doctor Wharton, and lay at". Sent from [Lancaster].
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • Archive MS ID: letters.0603 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: 22 May 1770
      • Language: English
      • Location: Library, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA <http://www.hsp.org/>
      • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 525, vol. iii, 1134-1136; Correspondence (1853), letter CXXXI, 439-442; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCLXVII, vol. iii, 284-286
      • Contents: Incipit: "I have received two letters from you with one enclosed from Paris,". Sent from London. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "22 May. 1770". Address: "Jermyn Street". Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Brown President of Pembroke-Hall Cambridge" Postmark: "22 MA".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: letters.0638 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
      • Date: [22 June 1771]
      • Physical Description: A.L.S.; envelope, 1 page, 204 mm x 171 mm
      • Language: English
      • Location: MS. Montagu d. 17, fols. 93-94, Special Collections, Montagu papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK <http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston/finding-resources/locations>
      • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 555, vol. iii, 1190-1191
      • Contents: Incipit: "I write just to tell you the reason of my stay here. the Gout has left me". Sent from London. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "Saturday". Address: "London". Envelope (front): "To / The Revd the Master of / Pembroke Hall / Cambridge" Postmark: "22 IV".
      • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.

Contents

  • Collection: Letters, 1734-1771
  • Correspondent: Brown, James
  • Manuscripts: 43

Manuscripts