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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.

    14 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.

      • 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.

      • [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.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.

      • [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.

      • [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.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.

      • [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: 14

Manuscripts