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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, 6 August 1755

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Letter ID: letters.0230

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 38
Addressee: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794 [i]
Addressee's age: 38[?]
Mentioned: Stonhewer, Richard, 1728-1809 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: 6 August 1755 [i]
Date (on letter): Aug: 6. 1755
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 2 pages, 202 mm x 163 mm
Address panel: To / Dr Thomas Wharton, M:D: / in Kings-Arms Yard, Coleman / Street / London (postmark: 7 AV)

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I was just returned from my Hampshire expedition, & going to enquire...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 71-72, 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 XLVII, vol. ii, pp. 256-258 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter LIV, vol. iii, pp. 131-133 - 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. CXX, vol. i, pp. 267-268 - 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. 199, vol. i, pp. 427-428 - view pages