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Robert Dodsley to Thomas Gray, [c. 15 December 1752]

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Letter ID: letters.0195

Correspondents

Writer: Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764
Writer's age: 49
Addressee: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Addressee's age: 36

Dates

Date of composition: [c. 15 December 1752]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [London, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[In his letter to Walpole of 17 Dec. [letters.0196] Gray refers to a letter he had just received from Dodsley to say that he could have the volume of Six Poems finished in a fortnight, if Gray were to be in town.]"
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], vol. i, 366.

Holding Institution

Availability: The original letter is not extant, no copy, transcription, or published version survives

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. 169****, vol. i, 366