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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, 17 April 1757

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To
Dr Thomas Wharton MD
in King's-Arms Yard
Fenchurch Street
London
18 AP

Dear Doctor

If I did not immediately answer your kind enquiry, you will attribute it to the visit, wch I was obliged to do the honours of for two or three days, & wch is now over. I find nothing new to add to my uneasiness here; on the contrary it is considerably abated, & quiet, I hope, is gradually returning. I am extremely glad to hear your country residence promises so well, & has been so serviceable to Mrs. Wharton already.

You desire to know how I like my visit. Lord N: is a sensible well-bred young Man, a little too fine even for me, who love a little finery: he never will be popular, & it is well, if he be not very much hated. his party were Lord Villers, & Mr Spencer, but I did not see a great deal of them. Ld John has been with me all this morning. the D: of Bedford is now here to settle his Son at Trinity, & Mr Rigby is come to assist him with his advice.

Adieu, I am interrupted, but will write again soon. believe me ever
Yours,
TG:
Letter ID: letters.0268 (Source: TEI/XML)

Correspondents

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

Dates

Date of composition: 17 April 1757
Date (on letter): April 17. Sunday. 1757
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [Cambridge, United Kingdom]
Place of addressee: [London, United Kingdom]

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 1 page, 205 mm x 161 mm
Addressed: To / Dr Thomas Wharton MD / in King's-Arms Yard / Fenchurch Street / London (postmark: 18 AP)

Content

Language: English
Incipit: If I did not immediately answer your kind enquiry, you will attribute it...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 104-105, Manuscripts collection, British Library , 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 LVII, vol. ii, 280-281
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter LXV, vol. iii, 158-159
  • 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. CXXXVIII, vol. i, 328-329
  • 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. 236, vol. ii, 497-498