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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, 26 December 1754

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Letter ID: letters.0225

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 38
Addressee: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794 [i]
Addressee's age: 37[?]
Mentioned: Clerke, John, 1717-1790 [i]
Mason, William, 1724-1797 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: 26 December 1754 [i]
Date (on letter): Dec: 26. 1754
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: Cambridge, United Kingdom [i]
Address (on letter): Camb:

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.; 4 pages (3p. poem, 1p. letter), 240 mm x 192 mm

Content

Language: English
Incipit: If this be as tedious to You, as it is grown to me, I shall be sorry...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 67-68, 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 Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W[illiam]. Mason. York: printed by A. Ward; and sold by J. Dodsley, London; and J. Todd, York, 1775, letter xx, section iv, p. 232 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section IV, letter XLV, vol. ii, pp. 251-253 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter LII, vol. iii, pp. 126-128 - 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. CXVI, vol. i, pp. 256-259 - 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. 194, vol. i, pp. 412-418 - view pages