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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, [17 March 1747]

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Letter ID: letters.0153

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 30
Addressee: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794 [i]
Addressee's age: 30[?]
Mentioned: Brown, James, 1709-1784 [i]
Stonhewer, Richard, 1728-1809 [i]
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: [17 March 1747] [i]
Date (on letter): March. Tuesday-Night
Calendar: Julian

Places

Place of composition: Cambridge, United Kingdom [i]
Address (on letter): Cambr:

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 3 pages, 237 mm x 183 mm
Address panel: To / Dr Thomas Wharton of / Durham (postmark: CAMBRIDGE)

Content

Language: English
Incipit: You ask me, what I would answer in case any one should ask me...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 19-20, 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 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, section iv, p. 206 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section IV, letter XIV, vol. ii, pp. 179-182 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter XIX, vol. iii, pp. 40-45 - 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. LXXV, vol. i, pp. 158-162 - 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. 135, vol. i, pp. 272-279 - view pages