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fore-mentioned list. Tragedy of Agis. Various authors in the last volume of Dodsley's Miscellany. Dr. Swift's four last years of Queen Anne. 367.Letter xxxi. To Mr. STONHEWER. On infidel writers and Lord Shaftesbury. 368.-A paper of Mr. Gray inserted, relating to an impious position of Lord Bolingbroke. 370.-Letter xxxii. To Dr. WHARTON. On the death of his son, and an excuse for not writing an epitaph. 374.-xxxiii. To Mr. PALGRAVE. Desiring him to communicate the remarks he should make in his tour through the North of England⚫ 376.-Letter xxxiv. To Mr. Mason. Some remarks on a second manuscript copy of Caractacus. 378— Letter xxxv. To Mr. PALGRAVE. Description of Mr. Gray's present situation in town, and of his reading in the British Museum. 379.-Letter xxxvi. To Dr. WHARTON. On employment. Gardening. Character of Froissart. King of Prussia's Poems. Tristram Shandy. 380.-Letter xxxvii. To Mr. STONHEWER. On the latter volumes of M. d'Alembert and the Erse Fragments. 383.-Letter xxxviii. To Dr. CLARKE. His amusements with a party on the banks of the Thames. Death of a Cambridge Doctor. More of the Erse Fragments. 386.-Letter xxxix. To Mr. MASON. On two Parodies of Mr. Gray's and Mr. Mason's Odes. Extract of a letter from Mr. David Hume, concerning the authenticity of the Erse Poetry. 387.-Letter xl. To Dr. WHARTON.

On his employments in the country. Nouvelle Eloise.
Fingal. Character of Mr. Stillingfleet. 390.-Letter
xli. To Mr. MASON. More concerning the Nouvelle
Eloise. Of Signor Elisi, and other Opera singers.
392.-Letter xlii. To Mr. MASON. On his expecta-
tion of being made a Residentiary of York. Reco-
very
of Lord ** from a dangerous illness. Reason
for writing the Epitaph on Sir William Williams.
394.-Letter xliii. To Dr. WHARTON. Description of
Hardwick. Professor Turner's death, and of the Peace.
395.-Letter xliv. To Mr. MASON. On Count Al-
garotti's approbation of his and Mr. Mason's Poetry.
Gothick Architecture. Plagiary in Helvetius, from
Elfrida. 396.—Letter xlv. To Mr. BROWN. Sending
him a message to write to a Gentleman abroad re-
lating to Count Algarotti, and recommending the
Erse Poems. 402.-Letter xlvi. Count ALGAROTTI
to Mr. GRAY. Complimentary, and sending him
some dissertations of his own. 404.--Letter xlvii.
To Dr. WHARTON. On Rousseau's Emile. 407.-
Letter xlviii. To Mr. PALGRAVE. What he particu-
arly advises him to see when abroad. 408.-Letter
xlix. To Mr. BEATTIE. Thanks for a letter received
from him, and an invitation from Lord Strathmore
to Glames. 410.-Letter 1. To Dr. WHARTON. De-
scription of the old castle of Glames, and part of
the Highlands. 411.-Letter li. To Mr. BEATTIE.
Apology for not accepting the degree of Doctor,

offered him by the University of Aberdeen. 418.-
Letter lii. To Dr. WHARTON. Buffon's Natural His-
tory. Memoirs of Petrarch. Mr. Walpole at Paris.
Description of a fine Lady. 420.-Letter liii. To
Mr. WHARTON. Tour into Kent. New Bath Guide.
Another volume of Buffon. 422.-Letter liv. To
Mr. MASON. On his Wife's death. 424.-Letter lv.
To Mr. BEATTIE. Thanks for a manuscript poem.
Mr. Adam Ferguson's Essay on Civil Society. A
compliment to Lord Gray. ib.-Letter lvi. To Mr.
BEATTIE. On the projected edition of our Author's
poems in England and Scotland. Commendation
of Mr. Beattie's Ode on Lord Hay's birth-day. 426.
-Letter lvii. To Mr. BEATTIE. More concerning
the Glasgow edition of his Poems. 428.-Letter
Iviii. To the Duke of GRAFTON. Thanking him for
his Professorship. 430.-Letter lix. To Mr. NICHOLLS.
Account of Mr. Brockett's death, and of his being
made his successor in the Professorship. 431.-
Letter lx. To Mr. BEATTIE. On the same subject.
432.

SECTION V.

Enumeration of such other literary pursuits of
Mr. Gray as were not sufficiently dilated upon in
the preceding letters. 443.-Letter i. To Mr. Ni-
CHOLLS. On the death of his uncle, Governor Floyer,
and advising him to take orders. 441.-Letter ii.

TON.

To Mr. NICHOLLS. Congratulating him upon his
situation, and mentioning his own Ode on the In-
stallation of the new Chancellor. 443.-Letter iii.
To Mr. BEATTIE. His reason for writing that Ode.
445.-Letter iv. To Dr. WHARTON. A journal of
his tour through Westmoreland, Cumberland, and a
part of Yorkshire. 447.-Letter v. To Mr. WHAR-
Description of Kirkstall Abbey, and some
other places in Yorkshire. 471.-Letter vi. To Mr.
NICHOLLS. Of Netley Abbey and Southampton.
473.-Letter vii. To Mr. BEATTIE. On the first
part of his Minstrel, and his Essay on the Immuta-
bility of Truth. Stricture on Mr. D. Hume. 475.
-Letter viii. To Mr. How. On receiving three of
Count Algarotti's Treatises, and hinting an errour
into which that author had fallen with regard to the
English taste of gardening. 477.-The manner in
which the Count rectified his mistake. 479.-Letter
ix. To Mr. How. After perusing the whole of
Count Algarotti's works in the Leghorn edition, and
his sentiments concerning them. 480.-Letter x.
To Mr. NICHOLLS. On the affection due to a Mother.
Description of that part of Kent whence the letter
was written. 482.—Letter xi. To Mr. NICHOLLS.
Character of Froissart and other old French Histo-
rians; and of Isocrates. 483.-Letter xii. To Dr.
WHARTON. Of his tour taken the year before to
Monmouth, &c. Intention of coming to Old Park:

and of his ill state of health. 485.-Conclusion,
with the particulars of Mr. Gray's death. His cha-
racter by another hand, and some annotations on
it by (Mr. Mason) the Editor. 486.

Two Translations of Mr. Gray's Elegy; the Latin
by Messrs. Anstey and Roberts; the Greek by W.
Cook, M. A. 495.-Translation of Mr. Gray's Son-
net on the death of Mr. West, in Italian, by Mr.
Mathias. 513.-Letter occasioned by the death of
the Rev. Norton Nicholls, LL.B. by Mr. Mathias.
515.

APPENDIX.

LETTERS FROM THOMAS GRAY TO THE HON.

HORACE WALPOLE.

Brief

Letter i. On the publick feeling at Cambridge
respecting the Pretender and his Army.
mention of Mr. Pope. Enquiries respecting Mr.
Mann and Mr. Chute. 539.-Letter ii. Some men-
tion of his tragedy of Agrippina. His opinion of a
sentence in Racine's Britannicus. Behaviour of
Mr. Ratcliffe at the time of his execution on Tower-
hill. Advice to Mr. Walpole. 540.-Letter iii.
Sends the Elegy in the Church-yard, and desires
Mr. Walpole's opinion of it. Short notice of Ashe-
ton's book against Middleton. 542.-Letter iv. Re-

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