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Henry Seymour Conway to Thomas Gray, [after 1 September 1741]

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Letter ID: letters.0115

Correspondents

Writer: Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795
Writer's age: 20[?]
Addressee: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Addressee's age: 24

Dates

Date of composition: [after 1 September 1741]
Calendar: Julian

Places

Place of composition: [unknown]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[In an undated letter to Henry Conway (see Letter 44 [letters.0048], n. 9), which was probably written not long after his arrival in England on 14 Sept. 1741, Horace Walpole says: 'Before I thank you for myself, I must thank you for that excessive good nature you showed in writing to poor Gray. I am less impatient to see you, as I find you are not the least altered, but have the same tender friendly temper you always had.'
As Gray had returned to England on 1 Sept., Conway's letter to him (which has not been preserved) was presumably written between that date and the date of Walpole's letter, that is to say, in the first half of September.]"
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, 187.

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. 99*, vol. i, 187