Article: William Mason and Count Francesco Algarotti: two new letters.

The Archives of John Murray (Publishers) Ltd. in London hold a collection of letters called the Algarotti Papers (see Jung 17-20). Count Francesco Algarotti (1712-64) was a well-known literary figure in mid-eighteenthcentury England, because he had produced a work on Newton that, in 1739, was translated by Elizabeth Carter as Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy Explain 'd for the Use of the Ladies. Further, he corresponded with Thomas Gray, author of the Elegy Written in a Country-Churchyard (1752), and it must have been through Gray that William Mason (1724-97), an old Cambridge University acquaintance of Gray's, started a correspondence with Algarotti as well (see Whibley and ...

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