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Thomas Gray to Mrs. (Dorothy) Gray, [19 December 1739]

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Letter ID: letters.0087

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 22
Addressee: Gray, Mrs. (Dorothy), 1685-1753 [i]
Addressee's age: 54[?]
Mentioned: Mann, Horace, Sir, 1706-1786 [i]
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: [19 December 1739] [i]
Date (on letter): [Dec. 19, N. S. 1739]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [Florence, Italy] [i]
Address (on letter): [Florence]

Content

Language: English
Incipit: We spent twelve days at Bologna, chiefly (as most travellers do)...

Holding Institution

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 xiv, section ii, pp. 72-74 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by Thomas James Mathias. London: William Bulmer, 1814, section II, letter XIV, vol. i, pp. 197-199 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section II, letter XIV, vol. ii, pp. 66-68 - view pages
  • The Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. in one. London: J. Sharpe, 1819, letter XXXII, vol. i, pp. 67-69 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section II, letter XIV, vol. ii, pp. 77-80 - 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. XXX, vol. i, pp. 49-51 - 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. 77, vol. i, pp. 134-136 - view pages