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Richard West to Thomas Gray, [February or March 1740]

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Letter ID: letters.0089

Correspondents

Writer: West, Richard, 1716-1742
Writer's age: 24[?]
Addressee: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Addressee's age: 23

Dates

Date of composition: [February or March 1740]
Calendar: Julian

Places

Place of composition: [London, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[West wrote a letter to Gray, which Mason thought 'too bizarre for the Public'. The letter must have been written in February or March, as Gray's reply was written in March or April (see Letter 78.** [letters.0090])]"
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, 137.

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. 78*, vol. i, 137