Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, [9 September 1747]
To
The Honble Horace Walpole Esq
at his House in Arlington-Street
Westminster
WINDSOR 11SE
If I am mistaken, You will have the Trouble of reading a few unnecessary Lines: but I imagine a Letter I wrote to you (about a Week after I received yours) has never come to your Hands. it was to say that I should be glad to make you a Visit as you propose, & left it to you what Time this Month it should be: only desired, that you would inform me a little beforehand, & tell me (who am too fine a Person to know where any English Place lies) whither Hounslow or Brentford be nearest Twickenham, where I would be on a certain Day, & you must fetch me from thence.
Adieu! I am
Yours ever
Yours ever
T GRAY.
Stoke, at Mrs Rogers's.
Wednesday–Sept: 9.
Wednesday–Sept: 9.
Letter ID:
letters.0159 (Source: TEI/XML)
Correspondents
Writer's age: 30
Addressee's age: 30
Dates
Date (on letter): Wednesday- Sept: 9
Calendar: Julian
Places
Address (on letter): Stoke, at Mrs Rogers's
Physical description
Addressed: To / The Honble Horace Walpole Esq / at his House in Arlington-Street / Westminster (postmark: WINDSOR 11SE)
Content
Language: English
Incipit: If I am mistaken, You will have the Trouble of reading a few unnecessary Lines:...
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Availability: The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes
Print Versions
- 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. 166, vol. ii, 86-87
- The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. Ed. by W. S. Lewis. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP; London: Oxford UP, 1937-83, vols. 13/14: Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Gray, Richard West and Thomas Ashton i, 1734-42, Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Gray ii, 1745-71, ed. by W. S. Lewis, George L. Lam and Charles H. Bennett, 1948, vol. ii, 31-32
- 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. 141, vol. i, 287-288