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6 INTRODUCTORY ESSAY,

As in this to Hs cousin the Hon. H. S. Conway¹(London, 1741).

"Before I thank you for myself, I must thank you
for that excessive good nature you showed in writing
to poor Gray. I am less impatient to see you, as I
find you are not the least altered, but have the same
tender friendly temper you always had."

Evidently he is anxious to make peace. The first
direct overtures towards a reconciliation came from
him, as Gray acknowledges² in a letter to John

¹ Horace Walpole's Letters, ed. Cunningham, no. 42, vol. i.
p. 731. Quoted, I discover, with the same intention, in
Mitford's 2nd Life of Gray.

² But there are two facsimiles prefixed to the first volume
of * Walpoliana' which look as if they were connected with
each other and with this reconciliation. The first is Gray's,
the 'second Walpole's.

...do yon mean to continue so, or shall You
see me the less Willingly next Week, when I mean to call at
your Door some Morning? I hope you are still in Town,
"believe me D^r S^r very sincerely yours

Cambridge, July 7 T GEAY

I shall be very glad, S^r, to see you here again
whenever it is convenient to you. Lest I should forget the
time, be so good as to acquaint me three or four days before-
hand when you wish to come, that I may not be out of the
way, & I will fix a day for expecting you. I am
Sr
yr obliged

humble Sert

HOB WALEOLE.
As far as my search can discover Gray's is not a fragment of



	6 INTRODUCTORY ESSAY, As in this to Hs cousin the Hon. H. S. Conway¹(London, 1741). "Before I thank you for myself, I must thank you for that excessive good nature you showed in writing to poor Gray. I am less impatient to see you, as I find you are not the least altered, but have the same tender friendly temper you always had." Evidently he is anxious to make peace. The first direct overtures towards a reconciliation came from him, as Gray acknowledges² in a letter to John ¹ Horace Walpole's Letters, ed. Cunningham, no. 42, vol. i. p. 731. Quoted, I discover, with the same intention, in Mitford's 2nd Life of Gray. ² But there are two facsimiles prefixed to the first volume of * Walpoliana' which look as if they were connected with each other and with this reconciliation. The first is Gray's, the 'second Walpole's. ...do yon mean to continue so, or shall You see me the less Willingly next Week, when I mean to call at your Door some Morning? I hope you are still in Town, "believe me D^r S^r very sincerely yours Cambridge, July 7 T GEAY I shall be very glad, S^r, to see you here again whenever it is convenient to you. Lest I should forget the time, be so good as to acquaint me three or four days before- hand when you wish to come, that I may not be out of the way, & I will fix a day for expecting you. I am Sr yr obliged humble Sert HOB WALEOLE. As far as my search can discover Gray's is not a fragment of