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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, [18 October 1755]

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Letter ID: letters.0239

Correspondents

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

Dates

Date of composition: [18 October 1755] [i]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 2 pages, 228 mm x 185 mm
Address panel: To / Dr Thomas Wharton M:D: / in Kings-Arms Yard Coleman / Street / London (postmark: 18 OC)

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I ought before now to have thanked you for your kind offer, wch I mean...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 77-78, 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 xxiii, section iv, pp. 244-245 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section IV, letter L, vol. ii, pp. 265-266 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter LVIII, vol. iii, pp. 141-143 - 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. CXXV, vol. i, pp. 279-281 - 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. 208, vol. i, pp. 441-443 - view pages