Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, 17 July 1769
To
Thomas Wharton Esq of
Old-Park near Darlington
Durham
to be left at
Sunderland-Bridge
CAMBRIDGE
Mason being in residence at York, I lay aside my first design of going obliquely to Aston, & thence to Keswick; & set out with Mr Brown tomorrow the common northern road. we shall probably pass two or three days at York, & then come to Old-Park. about the end of August we may cross the Apennine, & visit M: Skiddaw, when Mason may accompany or meet us on our way, & so you drop me there to find my way thro' the deserts of Lancashire in my return homewards.
I am so fat, that I have suffer'd more from heat this last fortnight, than ever I did in Italy. the Thermom: usually at 75, & (in the sun) at 116. my respects to Mrs Wh: & the family.
Yours
Correspondents
Dates
Places
Physical description
Content
Brown, James, 1709-1784
Keswick
Lancashire
Mason, William, 1724-1797
Old Park
Skiddaw
York
Holding Institution
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 189-190, Manuscripts collection, British Library , London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
Print Versions
- The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section V, letter V, vol. ii, 518
- The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section V, letter VI, vol. iv, 139-142
- The Letters of Thomas Gray, including the correspondence of Gray and Mason, 3 vols. Ed. by Duncan C. Tovey. London: George Bell and Sons, 1900-12, letter no. CCCXLIX, vol. iii, 230
- Correspondence of Thomas Gray, 3 vols. Ed. by the late Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley, with corrections and additions by H. W. Starr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971 [1st ed. 1935], letter no. 502, vol. iii, 1072-1073