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Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, [August 1736]

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Letter ID: letters.0029

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 19
Addressee: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 [i]
Addressee's age: 18
Mentioned: Cole, William, 1714-1782 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: [August 1736] [i]
Calendar: Julian

Places

Place of composition: [Burnham, United Kingdom] [i]

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I was hinder'd in my last, & so could not give you all the trouble...

Holding Institution

Location:
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Class No. LC II, 90, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge [i], Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
Availability: The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes

Print Versions

  • The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W[illiam]. Mason. York: printed by A. Ward; and sold by J. Dodsley, London; and J. Todd, York, 1775, letter ix, section i, pp. 23-25 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by Thomas James Mathias. London: William Bulmer, 1814, section I, letter IX, vol. i, pp. 153-154 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section I, letter IX, vol. ii, pp. 18-19 - view pages
  • The Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. in one. London: J. Sharpe, 1819, letter IX, vol. i, pp. 20-21 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section I, letter IX, vol. ii, pp. 20-22 - view pages
  • The Letters of Thomas Gray, including the correspondence of Gray and Mason, 3 vols. Ed. by Duncan C. Tovey. London: George Bell and Sons, 1900-12, letter no. VII, vol. i, pp. 7-8 - view pages
  • The Correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West and Ashton (1734-1771), 2 vols. Chronologically arranged and edited with introduction, notes, and index by Paget Toynbee. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915, letter no. 39, vol. i, pp. 92-95 - view pages
  • The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. Ed. by W. S. Lewis. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP; London: Oxford UP, 1937-83, vols. 13/14: Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Gray, Richard West and Thomas Ashton i, 1734-42, Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Gray ii, 1745-71, ed. by W. S. Lewis, George L. Lam and Charles H. Bennett, 1948, vol. i, pp. 105-107 - view pages
  • 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. 26, vol. i, pp. 46-49 - view pages