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CONTENTS.

VOL. IV.

N. B. Those Letters entirely new, or not published in Mr. Mason's

Work, are marked with an Asterisk*; those imperfectly published

by Mr. Mason with a Dagger t.

SECTION THE FOURTH.

Letter

Page

116 Mr. Gray's Remarks on the Letters prefixed to Mason's

Elfrida..

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117. To Mr. Brown. Sends him a Message to write to Mr.

Howe relating to Count Algarotti, and recommending

the Erse Poems...

6

118. Count Algarotti to Mr. Gray. Complimentary and send-

ing him some Dissertations of his Own...

8

*119. To Dr. Wharton. Visit from Mr. Walpole. Count Alga-

rotti. Rousseau's Emile. Dr. Roger Long's Audience

at Buckingham House. Change of Ministry. Natural-

ist's Calendar

...

*120. To Count Algarotti. Compliments him on his Efforts to

re-unite the Arts of Poetry, Music, the Dance, with

Painting and Architecture. Cause of the Hindrances to

this Union. Burletta-the Niccolina. English Language

not adapted to Music. State of the Arts in England ..

+121. To Mr. How. Observations on Count Algarotti's Works.

On English Gardening....

(Extract of a Letter from Mr. How to Mr. Gray.)......

*122. To Mr. Robinson. Hopes to go into Somersetshire. Ac-

count of Mr. Mason..

9

14

...

20

22

24

26

+123. To Mr. How. On publishing Count Algarotti's Works.

On Lord Chatham

+124. To Dr. Wharton. Complains of Illness and Depression

of Spirits. Mr. Mason's Marriage. Lord Sandwich.

Account of the Ministry...

28

32

*125. To Ditto. Account of his Health. Mr. Mason's Mar-

riage. Lord Bath's Death. New Works by Voltaire..

126. To Mr. Nicholls. On Nettley Abbey and Southampton. 36

*127. To Mr. Walpole. Receives the Castle of Otranto. Reads

Rousseau's Letters

40

128. To Mr. Palgrave. Instructions on his Travels

*129. To Dr. Wharton. Was at Southampton in the Autumn.

Lord Hardwicke elected as High Steward. Dr. Keene.

Bishop Warburton's Sermon....

41

47

Letter

Page

*130. To Ditto. Stays at Mr. Mason's. Is going to Old Park. 50

+ 131. To Ditto. Description of the Old Castle of Glamis, and

part of the Highlands...

.....

50

132. To Mr. Beattie. Invites Mr. Beattie to Glamis Castle .. 62

133. To Ditto. Declines the honour of a Degree offered by

the University of Aberdeen. Thoughts on the pursuit of

Poetry

134. To Mr. Nicholls. Reflection on his Mother's Illness.
Description of Part of Kent.....

*135. To Mr. Walpole. Advice to Mr. Walpole on his Illness.

Frontispiece to a Work by the Duchess of Newcastle..

*136. To Mr. Bentham. Various Observations on Gothic Archi-

tecture........

70

+137. To Dr. Wharton. On Mr. Mason. Observations on Po-

litics. Mr. Walpole

74

+138. To Ditto. Description of Part of Kent. On the Minis-

try. New Bath Guide

80

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85

87

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139. To Mr. Mason. On the Death of his Wife
*140. To Dr. Wharton. Proposes to go to Old Park............................
141. To Mr. Beattie. Observations on a Poem by Mr. Beattie.
On Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society

142. To Ditto. On Printing Mr. Gray's Poems at Glasgow.. 90

*143. To Dr. Wharton. Sends him some Books and Flowers.
On the Ministry. Sends him a Specimen of Leland's
Itinerary.

+144. To Mr. How. Dissuades him from publishing Count Al-
garotti's Works in England. Character of them

*145. To Dr. Wharton. On Mr. Wharton's Illness

93

98

146. To Mr. Beattie. On the Glasgow Edition of his Poems. 101

*147. To Mr. Dodsley. On an Edition of his Poems

........ 103

*148. To Mr. Walpole. On Mr. Walpole's Historic Doubts... 104

*149. To Ditto. On an Edition of his own Poems. Walpole's

Historic Doubts

110

*150. To Ditto. On Sir William Cornwallis's Essays. On Ri-

chard III.

114

*151. To Dr. Wharton. On Dr. Wharton's Legal Proceedings 116

152. To the Duke of Grafton. Returns Thanks for the Profes-

sorship of Modern History

120

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153. To Mary Antrobus. On his Professorship.

121

+154. To Dr. Wharton. Gives an Account of the manner in

which the Professorship was offered him...

123

155. To Mr. Nicholls. Describes the manner in which the

Professorship was bestowed on him

125

156. To Mr. Beattie. On his own Poems. Tells him of his

Appointment to the Professorship

126