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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, [14 November 1745]

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Letter ID: letters.0134

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 28
Addressee: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794 [i]
Addressee's age: 28[?]
Mentioned: Ashton, Thomas, 1715-1775 [i]
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: [14 November 1745] [i]
Date (on letter): Thursday
Calendar: Julian

Places

Place of composition: Stoke Poges, United Kingdom [i]
Address (on letter): Stoke

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 2 pages, 186 mm x 150 mm
Address panel: To / Thomas Wharton, Esq, Fellow of / Pembroke College / Cambridge (postmark: 16 NO)

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I am not lost: here am I at Stoke, whither I came on Tuesday,...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 7-8, Manuscripts collection, British Library [i], London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
Availability: The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes

Print Versions

  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section IV, letter III, vol. ii, pp. 144-146 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter III, vol. ii, pp. 173-175 - 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. LXIII, vol. i, pp. 124-126 - 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. 116, vol. i, pp. 226-228 - view pages