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Horace Walpole to Thomas Gray, 15 February 1759

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Letter ID: letters.0335

Correspondents

Writer: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 [i]
Writer's age: 41
Addressee: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Addressee's age: 42

Dates

Date of composition: 15 February 1759 [i]
Date (on letter): Feb. 15. 1759
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: London, United Kingdom [i]
Address (on letter): Arlington street

Content

Language: English
Incipit: The inclosed which I have this minute received from Mr Bentley, explains...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
HW MSS, Manuscript Collections, The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Library [i], New Haven, CT (Beinecke)/Farmington, CT (Lewis Walpole), USA <http://www.library.yale.edu/>
Availability: The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes

Print Versions

  • The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford, 5 vols. London: G. G. and J. Robinson and J. Edwards, 1798, vol. v, pp. 355-356
  • 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. 211, vol. ii, pp. 179-182 - 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. 103-105 - 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. 290, vol. ii, pp. 614-616 - view pages