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Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, 12 June 1750

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Letter ID: letters.0173

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 33
Addressee: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 [i]
Addressee's age: 32
Mentioned: Ashton, Thomas, 1715-1775 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: 12 June 1750 [i]
Date (on letter): June 12, 1750
Calendar: Julian

Places

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

Content

Language: English
Incipit: As I live in a place, where even the ordinary tattle of the town...

Holding Institution

Availability: The original letter is unlocated, a copy, transcription, or published version survives

Print Versions

  • The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford, 5 vols. London: G. G. and J. Robinson and J. Edwards, 1798, vol. v, p. 386
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by Thomas James Mathias. London: William Bulmer, 1814, appendix, letter III, vol. i, pp. 542-543 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section IV, letter XXII, vol. ii, pp. 204-205 - view pages
  • The Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. in one. London: J. Sharpe, 1819, letter LXXIII, vol. i, pp. 157-158 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter XXIX, vol. iii, pp. 71-72 - 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. XC, vol. i, pp. 204-205 - view pages
  • Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray. Ed. with Introduction and Notes by Clark Sutherland Northup. Boston and London: D. C. Heath & Co., 1911, letter excerpt, pp. 160-161 - view pages
  • 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. 170, vol. ii, pp. 101-103 - view pages
  • 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, pp. 43-44 - 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. 153, vol. i, pp. 326-327 - view pages