grayt.ead.0001-letters.0278 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.0278#did0001 mss.letters Letters 1734-1771 letters.brown_james Correspondence with Brown, James 1753-1771 English

43 letters (43 from Gray), dated between 1753 and 1771.

 letters.0278 Gray, Thomas to Brown, James 14 August 1757 A.L.S. 1 page envelope English PML 16518 (extra-illustrated copy of Gray's Odes), 3 Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts (LHMS) MOLI

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

a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford

 Correspondence (1971), letter no. 245, vol. ii, 516 Correspondence (1853), letter XXII, 93-94 Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXLV, vol. i, 344

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.".

 1757 Encyclopédie

Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive