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 bound into a copy of Mathias's Works of Thomas Gray (London, 1814), vol. II, part 2 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. 527, vol. iii, 1137-1138 http://www.e-enlightenment.com/search/letters/print/?printref_sourceedition=graythOU0084&printref_docnumber=527 The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, letter XVI, vol. v, 85-86 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/MiJ_1843v/1/85 Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 Cambridge, United Kingdom Nicholls, Norton, c. 1742-1809

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To the Revd Mr Nicholls

[Dear] Nicholls

I wrote to you from London lately not knowing but you might care to go with me into Yorkshire tomorrow, but as I neither find you here, nor any letter from you, I conclude that is not to be. I would wish by all means to oblige & serve T: in any way I am able, but it can not be in his way at present. he & you seem to think, that I have nothing else to do but to transcribe a page from some common-place-book on this head: if it were so, I should not hesitate a minute about it. but as I came from Town only on Thursday last, have only two days to pass here, & must fetch all the materials from my own recollection, he must excuse me for the present. let him begin with Ld Bacon's Henry 7th, & Ld Herbert's Henry 8th, & by that time I return from Aston (wch will be in 3 weeks or less) perhaps I may be able to help him onwards a little. I keep the letter till we meet, least it be lost. I would reply nothing to the article of separation ( [ ] for himself. [ ] point.

Adieu!

Direct, à Mons:r Mons: de B: chez Mess:rs Lullin, Freres, Banquiers, rue Thevenot, Paris.