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Thomas Gray to James Brown, 25 October 1760

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Letter ID: letters.0372

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 43
Addressee: Brown, James, 1709-1784 [i]
Addressee's age: 51[?]
Mentioned: Palgrave, William, 1735-1799 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: 25 October 1760 [i]
Date (on letter): Oct: 25. 1760
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 1 page
Address panel: To / The Revd Mr Brown, President / of Pembroke-Hall / Cambridge (postmark: 25 OC)

Content

Language: English
Incipit: You will wonder at another letter so soon. it is only to tell you,...
Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original letter

Holding Institution

Location:
(unconfirmed)
Private collection [i]
[no further information available]
Availability: The original letter is extant, but there is no further information about its availability; owned (2008) by Stuart Lutz, Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, 784 Morris Turnpike, Box No. 161, Short Hills, NJ 07078, USA

Print Versions

  • The Correspondence of Thomas Gray and William Mason, with Letters to the Rev. James Brown, D.D. Ed. by the Rev. John Mitford. London: Richard Bentley, 1853, letter LVIII, pp. 226-227 - 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. CCXI, vol. ii, p. 173 - 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. 323, vol. ii, p. 708 - view pages