The Correspondence of Richard Hurd and William Mason
The Correspondence of Richard Hurd and William Mason
And Letters of Richard Hurd to Thomas Gray
Ernest Harold Pearce
Leonard Whibley
Leonard Whibley
May 2014
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Originally published in 1932, this book contains selected correspondence between Bishop of Worcester Richard Hurd and his lifelong friend Reverend William Mason, Precentor of York. Also included in the volume are letters from Hurd to the poet Thomas Gray. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in eighteenth-century society.
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May 2014Paperback
9781107654785
214 pages
216 × 140 × 12 mm
0.28kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Note on the text of the letters
- Abbreviated titles
- Introduction E. A. Pearce
- Records of the principal events of the lives of Richard Hurd and William Mason, written by themselves
- Letters (I-XXXVI) of Hurd to Mason and to Gray between 1747 and 1755
- Note: an interruption of the correspondence
- Letters (XXXVII-LIX) of Hurd to Mason and Mason to Hurd between 1788 and 1797
- Appendix A. Letters (I*-V*) written after Mason's death
- Appendix B. Manuscript poems by Gray and Mason
- Index.
