[23] Gray's Works, by Gosse, 1884, ii. 18-19.
[24] Gray to West, 22 May, 1739.
[25] Walpole to West, no date, 1739.
[26] Gray to West, 22 May, 1739.
[27] Walpole to West, no date, 1739.
[28] Walpole to West, 18 June, 1739.
[29] Gray's Works, by Gosse, 1884, ii. 30.
[30] Walpole to West, Sept. 28-2 Oct., 1739.
[31] Tory, however, was not illachrymabilis. He found his vates sacer in one Edward Burnaby Greene, once of Bennet College; and in referring to this, thirty-five years later, Walpole explains how Tory got his name. 'His godmother was the widow of Alderman Parsons [Humphrey Parsons, of Goldsmith's 'black champagne'], who gave him at Paris to Lord Conway, and he to me' (Walpole to Cole, 10 Dec., 1775).
[32] Spence's Anecdotes, by Singer, 2d ed., 1858, pp. 305-8.