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Thomas Gray to John Chute, [c. 20 May 1742]

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Letter ID: letters.0125

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 25
Addressee: Chute, John, 1701-1776
Addressee's age: 40

Dates

Date of composition: [c. 20 May 1742]
Calendar: Julian

Places

Place of composition: [London, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[In the letter to Chute of 24 May (Letter 109 [letters.0126]) Gray says: 'I had wrote to you but a few days ago.']"
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, 203.

Holding Institution

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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. 108*, vol. i, 203