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"[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.""
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Excuse me, if I begin to wonder a little, that I have heard no news of you in so long a time. I conclude, you received Dodsley's
packet at least a week ago, & made my presents. you will not wonder therefore at my curiosity, if
I enquire of you, what you hear said? for tho' in the rest of the world I do not expect to hear, that any body says much, or thinks
about the matter yet among mes Confreres, the Learned, I know there is alway leisure at least to find fault, if
not to commend.
I have been lately much out of order; & confined at home, but now I go abroad again. Mr Garrick & his Wife have pass'd some days at my Lady Cobham's, & are shortly to return again; they & a few other people, that I see there, have been my only entertainment till this week: but now I have purchased some volumes of the Great French Encyclopedie, & am trying to amuse myself within doors.