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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, [10 October 1751]

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Letter ID: letters.0184

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 34
Addressee: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794 [i]
Addressee's age: 34[?]

Dates

Date of composition: [10 October 1751] [i]
Calendar: Julian

Places

Place of composition: [Cambridge, United Kingdom] [i]

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 3 pages, 204 mm x 161 mm

Content

Language: English
Incipit: A little kind of Reproach, that I saw the other Day in a Letter of yours...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 41-42, 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 XXIV, vol. ii, pp. 208-210 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter XXXI, vol. iii, pp. 75-78 - 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. XCVI, vol. i, pp. 215-218 - 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. 163, vol. i, pp. 351-354 - view pages