THE WORKS

OF

ام

THOMAS GRAY

En Prose and Verse

EDITED BY

EDMUND GOSSE

CLARK LECTURER ON ENGLISH LITERATURE AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

IN FOUR VOLS.-VOL. II.

LETTERS.-I.

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

LETTERS

[The Letters of Gray were first published in 1775, by Mason, who took the liberty of amending and omitting portions of the text, and of inserting interpolations of his own. A better and a much fuller text was published by Mitford in 1816. The letters addressed to the Rev. Norton Nicholls appeared in 1843, and in 1853 Mitford published an additional volume of new letters, chiefly addressed to Mason. In the following pages I have followed Mitford's latest collations, except as regards the very numerous letters addressed to Wharton, which are all printed here directly from Gray's holographs in the Egerton MSS.-Ed.]

CONTENTS.

LETTER

I. To Richard West

II. To Richard West

III. To the Rev. George Birkett

IV. To Richard West

V. To Horace Walpole

VI. Fragment of a Letter to Richard West

VII. To Richard West

VIII. To Horace Walpole

IX. To Horace Walpole

X. To Richard West

XI. To Horace Walpole

XII. To Richard West

XIII. To Mrs. Dorothy Gray

XIV. To Richard West

XV. To Richard West

XVI. To Mrs. Dorothy Gray

XVII. To Philip Gray.

XVIII. To Richard West

XIX. To Mrs. Dorothy Gray

XX. To Philip Gray.

XXI. To Mrs. Dorothy Gray

XXII. To Richard West

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