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Thomas Gray to Richard Stonhewer, [21 August 1755]

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Letter ID: letters.0235

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 38
Addressee: Stonhewer, Richard, 1728-1809 [i]
Addressee's age: 27[?]
Mentioned: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: [21 August 1755] [i]
Date (on letter): [August 21, 1755]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [Stoke Poges, United Kingdom] [i]

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I thank you for your intelligence about Herculaneum, which was the first...

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Availability: The original letter is unlocated, a copy, transcription, or published version survives

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  • 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 xxi, section iv, pp. 240-241 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by Thomas James Mathias. London: William Bulmer, 1814, section IV, letter XXI, vol. i, pp. 349-350 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section IV, letter XLIX, vol. ii, pp. 263-264 - view pages
  • The Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. in one. London: J. Sharpe, 1819, letter LXXXIX, vol. ii, pp. 6-8 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter LVII, vol. iii, pp. 139-141 - 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. CXXII, vol. i, pp. 270-271 - view pages
  • Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray. Ed. with Introduction and Notes by Clark Sutherland Northup. Boston and London: D. C. Heath & Co., 1911, letter excerpt, pp. 178-179 - 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. 204, vol. i, pp. 432-433 - view pages