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Thomas Gray to William Cole, [c. 1748]

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Mr. Gray desires Mr. Cole would lend him the 2d V: of ye Biogr: Britann: ; & inform him, what is the Number of ye Book wch the Master of Bennet wants out of ye King's Library.

Letter ID: letters.0166 (Source: TEI/XML)

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 31[?]
Addressee: Cole, William, 1714-1782
Addressee's age: 33[?]

Dates

Date of composition: [c. 1748]
Calendar: Julian

Places

Place of composition: [Cambridge, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: English
Incipit: Mr. Gray desires Mr. Cole would lend him the 2d V: of ye Biogr: Britann:;...
Mentioned: Biographia Britannica

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
fMS Hyde 77, Houghton Library, Harvard University , Cambridge, MA, USA <http://library.harvard.edu/>
Availability: The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes

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. 147, vol. i, 312