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Collection	GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
Level	Item
Ref No	MS 30/2/162
Alt Ref No	MS 30 c.162
Title	William Mason to James Beattie from Aston
Date	15 November 1773
Extent	1 Item
Administrative History	William Mason [1724-1797] Poet, Canon of York, friend and biographer of Thomas Gray
Description	Received packet of letters safe and will return them when he has used them. Does not find either the 'Ode on Lord Hay's Birthday' or the other stanzas ['The Hermit'] in the edition of Beattie's poems printed by Johnson in 1766 [Poems on Several Subjects]. Mason might refer to them, though he does not intend to print any of Gray's particular criticism. The stanzas are excellent as far as they go but do not go far enough, and should introduce doctrine of the soul's immortality. There are not comments by Gray in the printed copy of the first book [of The Minstrel] which did not appear in his letter
Access Status	Open

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