The Correspondence of Richard Hurd and William Mason
And Letters of Richard Hurd to Thomas Gray

Originally published in 1932, this book contains selected correspondence between Bishop of Worcester Richard Hurd and Reverend William Mason, Precentor of York.

Ernest Harold Pearce (Introduction by), Leonard Whibley (Edited by)

9781107654785, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 May 2014

214 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.2 cm, 0.28 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]