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Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, 17 January 1758

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Letter ID: letters.0304

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 41
Addressee: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 [i]
Addressee's age: 40
Mentioned: Butler, J., Mr [i]

Dates

Date of composition: 17 January 1758 [i]
Date (on letter): Jan: 17. 1758
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: Cambridge, United Kingdom [i]
Address (on letter): Pemb: Hall

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I ought sooner to have thank'd you for the reverend Packet you were...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Class No. LC II, 90, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge [i], Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
Availability: The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes

Print Versions

  • The Correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West and Ashton (1734-1771), 2 vols. Chronologically arranged and edited with introduction, notes, and index by Paget Toynbee. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915, letter no. 208, vol. ii, pp. 175-176 - view pages
  • The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. Ed. by W. S. Lewis. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP; London: Oxford UP, 1937-83, vols. 13/14: Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Gray, Richard West and Thomas Ashton i, 1734-42, Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Gray ii, 1745-71, ed. by W. S. Lewis, George L. Lam and Charles H. Bennett, 1948, vol. ii, pp. 101-102 - 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. 264, vol. ii, p. 556 - view pages