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Richard West to Thomas Gray, [August 1740]

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Letter ID: letters.0106

Correspondents

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

Dates

Date of composition: [August 1740]
Calendar: Julian

Places

Place of composition: [London, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[In his letter to West of 25 Sept. (Letter 94 [letters.0107]) Gray refers to 'a very diminutive letter', which West had written, in reply to a letter of Gray, which West described as his 'serious letter' (Letter 91 [letters.0103] of 16 July). West's letter is not extant.]"
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, 175.

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. 93*, vol. i, 175