grayt.ead.0001-letters.0071 Thomas Gray Manuscripts: An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive. Alexander Huber Thomas Gray Archive 2006 Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber, Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005- English grayt.ead.0001-letters.0071#did0001 mss.letters Letters 1734-1771 letters.ashton_thomas Correspondence with Ashton, Thomas 1738-1742 English

7 letters (7 from Gray), dated between 1738 and 1742.

letters.0071 Gray, Thomas to Ashton, Thomas [29 May 1739] English HM 7417 Department of Manuscripts Huntington Manuscripts HULI

The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes

a photograph is at Pembroke College, Cambridge, GBR/1058/GRA/5/4; a photocopy is at the Bodleian Library, MS. Facs. b. 77, fol. 90b; a MS transcript is at the British Library, Add. MSS 32562, ff. 144-147

Correspondence (1971), letter no. 63, vol. i, 109-111 Correspondence (1915), letter no. 92, vol. i, 221-224 Gray and his Friends (1890), section I, letter no. 3, 41-45 Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 124-125 Letters (1900-12), letter no. XVIII, vol. i, 28-30

Incipit: "I shall not make you any excuses, because I can't: I shall not try". Sent from Paris. Dateline: "May 29. N:S: Friday-night". Address: "Paris".

Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795 Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 West, Richard, 1716-1742 Wall, William Racine France

Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive

Digital facsimile from TyP_1915