Crebillion's Catalina.-Birch's State Papers.-Of his own studies,

and a table of Greek Chronology, which he was then form-

ing

p. 63

LETTER 11. To Dr. WHARTON.-Ludicrous account of the Duke

of Newcastle's Installation at Cambridge.-On the Ode then

performed, and more concerning the Author of it

p. 68

LETTER 12. To his MOTHER.-Consolatory on the death of her

sister

LETTER 13. To Dr. WHARTON.-Wishes to be able to pay him
a visit at Durham.-On Dr. Middleton's death.-Some account
of the first volumes of Buffon's Histoire Naturelle

P. 70

p. 72

Narrative of the incident which led Mr. Gray to write his

Long Story. That Poem inserted, with Notes by the Editor,

and prefaced with his idea of Mr. Gray's peculiar vein of

humour

p. 74

LETTER 14. To Dr. WHARTON.-On the ill reception which the
foregoing Poem met with in town when handed about in manu-
script, and how much his Elegy in a Country Church-Yard was
applauded

.

.

p. 86

LETTER 15. To Mr. WALPOLE.-Desires him to give his Elegy

to Mr. Dodsley to be printed immediately, in order to prevent

its publication in a magazine

p. 88

LETTER 16. To Dr. WHARTON.-Of Madame Maintenon's Cha-

racter and Letters.-His high opinion of M. Racine.—Of Bishop

Hall's Satires, and of a few of Plato's Dialogues

p. 89

LETTER 17. To Mr. WALPOLE.-Concerning the intention of

publishing Mr. Bentley's designs for his Poems.-Refuses to have

his own portrait prefixed to that work

Farther account of those designs, with stanzas which Mr. Gray wrote to Mr. Bentley on that occasion

p. 96

Epitaph on Mr. Gray's Aunt and Mother in the church-yard of Stoke-Pogis

P. 97

LETTER 18. To Mr. MASON.-On the death of his Father p. ib. LETTER 19. To Dr. WHARTON.-On Strawberry-Hill.-Occasional remarks on Gothic Architecture

p. 99

LETTER 20. To Dr. WHARTON.-Objection to publishing his Ode on the Progress of Poetry singly.-Hint of his having other lyrical ideas by him unfinished

p. 101

Explanation of that hint, and a fragment of one of those lyrical pieces inserted

p. 103

LETTER 21. To Mr. STONHEWER.-Of Monsignor Baiardi's book concerning Herculaneum.-A Poem of Voltaire.-Incloses a part of his Ode entitled the Bard. P. 111 LETTER 22. To Dr, WHARTON.-On his removing from PeterHouse to Pembroke-Hall. His notion of a London Hospital. Of Sully's Memoirs.-Mason's four Odes p. 113 LETTER 23. To Dr. WHARTON. Of his own indolence.-Memoirs of M. de la Porte and of Madame Staal.-Intention of coming to town

LETTER 24. To Mr. MASON.-Of his Reviewers.-Offers to send

P. 116

him Druidical anecdotes for his projected drama of Carac

tacus

P. 118

LETTER 25. To Mr. MASON.-On hearing Parry play on the Welch Harp, and finishing his Ode after it.-Account of the Old Ballad on which the Tragedy of Douglas was founded p. 121 LETTER 26. To Mr. HURD.--On the ill reception his two Pindaric Odes met with on their publication. p. 123 LETTER 27. To Mr. MASON.-His opinion of the dramatic part of Caractacus .

p. 132

p. 126 LETTER 28. To Mr. MASON.-Dissuading him from retirement. —Advice concerning Caractacus.--Criticisms on his Elegy written in the garden of a friend.-Refusal of the office of Poet Laureat LETTER 29. To Dr.WHARTON.-Account of his present employment in making out a list of places in England worth seeing LETTER 30. To Dr. WHARTON.-On the fore-mentioned list.Tragedy of Agis.-Various authors in the last volumes of Dodsley's Miscellany.-Dr. Swift's four last years of Queen Ann

p. 136

p. 138

LETTER 31. To Mr. STONHEWER.-On infidel writers and Lord Shaftesbury

p. 140

A paper of Mr. Gray inserted, relating to an impious position of Lord Bolingbroke

P. 142

and

p. 149

LETTER 32. To Dr. WHARTON.-On the death of his son, an excuse for not writing an epitaph LETTER 33. To Mr. PALGRAVE.-Desiring him to communicate the remarks he should make in his tour through the North of England

P. 152

LETTER 34. TO Mr. MASON.-Some remarks on a second manu

script copy of Caractacus

P. 154 LETTER 35. To Mr. PALGRAVE.-Description of Mr. Gray's present situation in town, and of his reading in the British Mu

seum

P. 156

LETTER 36. To Dr. WHARTON.-On employment.-Gardening. -Character of Froissart.-King of Prussia's Poems.-Tristram

Shandy LETTER 37.

To Mr. STONHEWER.-On the latter volumes of

M. d'Alembert and the Erse Fragments

p. 162

LETTER 38. To Dr. CLARKE.-His amusements with a party on the banks of the Thames.-Death of a Cambridge Doctor.More of the Erse Fragments P. 166 LETTER 39. 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 p. 168 LETTER 40. To Dr. WHARTON.-On his employments in the country.-Nouvelle Eloise.-Fingal.-Character of Mr. Stillingfleet.

P. 172

LETTER 41. To Mr. MASON.-More concerning the Nouvelle Eloise. Of Signor Elisi, and other Opera singers

p. 175 LETTER 42. To Mr. MASON.-On his expectation of being made a Residentiary of York.-Recovery of Lord ** from a dangerous illness. Reason for writing the Epitaph on Sir William Williams

p. 177

LETTER 43. To Dr. WHARTON.-Description of Hardwick.Professor Turner's death. And of the Peace p. 179 LETTER 44. To Mr. MASON.-On Count Algarotti's approbation of his and Mr. Mason's Poetry.-Gothic Architecture.— Plagiary in Helvetius, from Elfrida

p. 181 LETTER 45. To Mr. BROWN.-Sending him a message to write to a Gentleman abroad relating to Count Algarotti, and recommending the Erse Poems.

LETTER 46. Count ALGAROTTI to Mr. Gray.-Complimentary, and sending him some dissertations of his own

p. 189

p. 191

P. 195

LETTER 47. To Dr. WHARTON.-On Rousseau's Emile p. 193 LETTER 48. To Mr. PALGRAVE.-What he particularly advises him to see when abroad LETTER 49. To Mr. BEATTIE.-Thanks for a letter received from him, and an invitation from Lord Strathmore to Glamis

P. 200

p. 201

LETTER 50. To Dr. WHARTON.-Description of the old castle of Glamis, and part of the Highlands LETTER 51. To Mr. BEATTIE.-Apology for not accepting the degree of Doctor, offered him by the University of Aber

p. 213

deen LETTER 52. To Dr. WHARTON.-Buffon's Natural History.Memoirs of Petrarch.-Mr. Walpole at Paris..-Description of a fine Lady LETTER 53. To Dr. WHARTON.-Tour into Kent.-New Bath Guide. Another volume of Buffon

p. 215

P. 218

p. 221

LETTER 54. To Mr. MASON.-On his Wife's death.
LETTER 55. To Mr. BEATTIE.-Thanks for a manuscript poem.
-Mr. Adam Ferguson's Essay on Civil Society.-A compli-
ment to Lord Gray

p. 222 LETTER 56. 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 p. 225 LETTER 57. To Mr. BEATTIE.-More concerning the Glasgow edition of his Poems

p. 228

LETTER 58. To the Duke of GRAFTON.-Thanking him for his Professorship p. 230 LETTER 59. To Mr. NICHOLLS.-Account of Mr. Brocket's death, and of his being made his successor in the Professorship

LETTER 60. To Mr. BEATTIE.-On the same subject

p. 231

P. 232