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Thomas Gray to Philip Gray, [25 October 1739]

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Letter ID: letters.0082

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 22
Addressee: Gray, Philip, 1676-1741 [i]
Addressee's age: 63[?]
Mentioned: Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795 [i]
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: [25 October 1739] [i]
Date (on letter): [Oct. 25, N. S. 1739]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [Lyon, France] [i]
Address (on letter): [Lyons]

Content

Language: English
Incipit: In my last I gave you the particulars of our little journey to Geneva:...

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Availability: The original letter is unlocated, a copy, transcription, or published version survives

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  • 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 ii, pp. 60-62 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by Thomas James Mathias. London: William Bulmer, 1814, section II, letter IX, vol. i, pp. 187-188 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section II, letter IX, vol. ii, pp. 54-56 - view pages
  • The Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. in one. London: J. Sharpe, 1819, letter XXVII, vol. i, pp. 55-57 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section II, letter IX, vol. ii, pp. 63-65 - 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. XXV, vol. i, pp. 39-41 - 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. 72, vol. i, pp. 123-125 - view pages