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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, 17 February 1757

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Letter ID: letters.0265

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 40
Addressee: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794 [i]
Addressee's age: 40[?]

Dates

Date of composition: 17 February 1757 [i]
Date (on letter): Feb: 17. 1757
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [Cambridge, United Kingdom] [i]

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.; 1 page, 200 mm x 163 mm
Address panel: To / Dr Thomas Wharton M:D: / in King's Arms Yard / Coleman Street / London (postmark: 18 FE)

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I can not help thanking you for your kind letter, tho' I have nothing...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 90-91, 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 LVI, vol. ii, pp. 279-280 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter LXIV, vol. iii, pp. 157-158 - 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. CXXXVII, vol. i, pp. 327-328 - 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. 233, vol. ii, p. 495 - view pages