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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, 12 March 1740

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Letter ID: letters.0091

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 23
Addressee: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794 [i]
Addressee's age: 23[?]
Mentioned: Clerke, John, 1717-1790 [i]
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: 12 March 1740 [i]
Date (on letter): March. 12. N: S:
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 4 pages (3p. proposal, 1p. letter), 220 mm x 170 mm

Content

Language: English
Incipit: (Which is a dear more than I give any body else. it is very odd to begin...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 1-2, Manuscripts collection, British Library [i], London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
Availability: The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes

Print Versions

  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section II, letter XVII, vol. ii, pp. 71-77 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section II, letter XVII, vol. ii, pp. 83-91 - view pages
  • The Correspondence of Thomas Gray and William Mason, with Letters to the Rev. James Brown, D.D. Ed. by the Rev. John Mitford. London: Richard Bentley, 1853, letter II, pp. 5-13 - 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. XXXII, vol. i, pp. 52-57 - 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. 79, vol. i, pp. 138-143 - view pages