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Richard West to Thomas Gray, [c. 1 July 1735]

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Letter ID: letters.0016

Correspondents

Writer: West, Richard, 1716-1742
Writer's age: 19[?]
Addressee: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Addressee's age: 18

Dates

Date of composition: [c. 1 July 1735]
Calendar: Julian

Places

Place of composition: [Oxford, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: Latin
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[In his letter to Walpole of 3 July 1735, Gray says that he had received the day before 'a long letter in Latin' from West (see Letter 16 [letters.0017], n. 6).]"
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, 27.

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. 15*, vol. i, 27