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Thomas Gray to Richard West, [c. 3 June 1742]

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Letter ID: letters.0128

Correspondents

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

Dates

Date of composition: [c. 3 June 1742]
Calendar: Julian

Places

Place of composition: [Stoke Poges, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[In his letter to Ashton of 17 June 1742 (Letter 111 [letters.0129]) Gray mentions having received back unopened a letter he had recently written to West, which was the first intimation he had of West's death. This letter doubtless accompanied the Ode on the Spring (see Letter 125 [letters.0143], n. 4).]"
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, 213.

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. 110*, vol. i, 213