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Thomas Gray to Richard West, [23 April 1742]

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Letter ID: letters.0121

Correspondents

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

Dates

Date of composition: [23 April 1742] [i]
Date (on letter): [April, 23]
Calendar: Julian

Places

Place of composition: [London, United Kingdom] [i]

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I should not have fail'd to answer your Letter immediately,...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, New York Public Library [i], New York, NY, USA <http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
Availability: The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes

Print Versions

  • 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 vi, section iii, pp. 145-146 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by Thomas James Mathias. London: William Bulmer, 1814, section III, letter VI, vol. i, pp. 263-264 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section III, letter VI, vol. ii, pp. 132-133 - view pages
  • The Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. in one. London: J. Sharpe, 1819, letter LIV, vol. i, pp. 122-123 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section III, letter VI, vol. ii, pp. 158-160 - 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. LIII, vol. i, pp. 100-101 - view pages
  • Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray. Ed. with Introduction and Notes by Clark Sutherland Northup. Boston and London: D. C. Heath & Co., 1911, letter excerpt, p. 136 - 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. 146, vol. ii, pp. 33-34 - 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. 105, vol. i, pp. 196-199 - view pages