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Richard West to Thomas Gray, [c. 12 April 1742]

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Letter ID: letters.0120

Correspondents

Writer: West, Richard, 1716-1742 [i]
Writer's age: 26[?]
Addressee: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Addressee's age: 25

Dates

Date of composition: [c. 12 April 1742] [i]
Date (on letter): [April]
Calendar: Julian

Places

Place of composition: [Pope's, United Kingdom] [i]

Content

Language: English
Incipit: To begin with the conclusion of your letter, which is Greek...

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 v, section iii, pp. 142-144 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by Thomas James Mathias. London: William Bulmer, 1814, section III, letter V, vol. i, pp. 261-263 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section III, letter V, vol. ii, pp. 130-132 - view pages
  • The Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. in one. London: J. Sharpe, 1819, letter LIII, vol. i, pp. 119-122 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section III, letter V, vol. ii, pp. 155-158 - view pages
  • Gray and his Friends: Letters and Relics, in great part hitherto unpublished. Ed. by Duncan C. Tovey. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1890, section II, letter no. 37, pp. 160-163 - view pages
  • The Correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West and Ashton (1734-1771), 2 vols. Chronologically arranged and edited with introduction, notes, and index by Paget Toynbee. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915, letter no. 145, vol. ii, pp. 30-33 - 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. 104, vol. i, pp. 194-195 - view pages