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Thomas Gray to John Whalley, [c. December 1747]

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Letter ID: letters.0162

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 31
Addressee: Whalley, John, 1698 or 9-1748
Addressee's age: 48[?]

Dates

Date of composition: [c. December 1747]
Calendar: Julian

Places

Place of composition: [Cambridge, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[In his letter to Walpole of Jan. 1748 (Letter 144 [letters.0163]) Gray says that he had written a letter to Dr. Whalley (see Letter 117 [letters.0135], n. 3) to rebuke him for calling him 'a kind of Atheist'. This letter, to which Gray refers again in his letter to Wharton of 19 Aug. 1748 (Letter 146 [letters.0165]), is not extant.]"
Correspondence of Thomas Gray, 3 vols. Ed. by the late Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley, with corrections and additions by H. W. Starr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971 [1st ed. 1935], vol. i, 294.

Holding Institution

Availability: The original letter is not extant, no copy, transcription, or published version survives

Print Versions

  • Correspondence of Thomas Gray, 3 vols. Ed. by the late Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley, with corrections and additions by H. W. Starr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971 [1st ed. 1935], letter no. 143*, vol. i, 294