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William Talbot to Thomas Gray, [c. May 1764]

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Letter ID: letters.0645

Correspondents

Writer: Talbot, William, d. 1811
Writer's age: [u
Addressee: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Addressee's age: 47

Dates

Date of composition: [c. May 1764]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [Bath, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[Letter 388* (letters.0643)...] is the first indication that Talbot and Gray exchanged letters. It is therefore possible that Talbot played a more important role in Gray's life than biographers have realized."
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. iii, 1320 note 2.

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], vol. iii, 1320 note 2