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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, [20 July 1754]

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Letter ID: letters.0221

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 37
Addressee: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794
Addressee's age: 37[?]

Dates

Date of composition: [20 July 1754]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [Stoke Poges, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[In MS. Brit. Mus. Egerton, 2400, between Gray's letter to Wharton of 18 Oct. 1753 (Letter 183 [letters.0212]) and that of 13 Aug. 1754 (Letter 191 [letters.0222]) there is a blank sheet of paper, similar to that used by Gray, which has Wharton's endorsement: 'Mr Gray 20 July 1754'. This evidently belonged to a letter which cannot now be traced.]"
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, 402.

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. 190, vol. i, 402