Introduction. Mr. GRAY's birth. Education at Eton, where he commences a friendship with the Hon. Horace Walpole and Mr. Richard West. Account of the latter, with whom and with Mr. Walpole a correspondence begins on their leaving school, and going to the University . . . . . .
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1. From Mr. West. Complains of his friend's silence . • * *
2. To Mr. West. Answer to the former. A translation of some lines from
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3. From Mr. West. Approbation of the version. Ridicule on the Cam-
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Preface of the Editor to the subsequent letter - - - -
4. To Mr. West. On the little encouragement which he finds given to classical learning at Cambridge. His aversion to metaphysical and mathe
matical studies . . - - - - - - e e o 'o - e. 5. From Mr. West. Answer to the former, advises his correspondent not to give up poetry when he applies himself to the law - - - e 6. To Mr. WALPole. Excuse for not writing to him, &c. e e e
7. From Mr. West. A poetical epistle addressed to his Cambridge friends, taken in part from Tibullus and a prose letter of Mr. Pope . - 8. To Mr. West. Thanks him for his poetical epistle. Complains of low spirits. Lady Walpole's death, and his concern for Mr. H. Walpole . 9. To Mr. WALPole. How he spends his own time in the country. Meets with Mr. Southern, the dramatic poet . o - - - o 10. To Mr. WALPole. Supposed manner in which Mr. Walpole spends his time in the country . e e - - e - - e e 11. From Mr. West. Sends him a translation into Latin of a Greek epigram 12. To Mr. West. A Latin epistle in answer to the foregoing . - 13. From Mr. West, on leaving the University, and removing to the Temple 14. To Mr. West. A Sapphic Ode, occasioned by the preceding letter, with a Latin postscript, concluding with an Alcaic fragment - - 15. From Mr. West. Thanks for his Ode, &c. His idea of Sir Robert Walpole . - e - - e - - •. - - 16. To Mr. WALPole. Congratulates him on his new place. Whimsical description of the quadrangle of Peter-house . e e - - e 17. To Mr. West. On his own leaving the University - e. e. e. 18. From Mr. West. Sends him a Latin Elegy in answer to Mr. Gray's Sapphic Ode . o - *