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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, [19 July 1761]

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Letter ID: letters.0388

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 44
Addressee: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794 [i]
Addressee's age: 44[?]
Mentioned: Ashton, Thomas, 1715-1775 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: [19 July 1761] [i]
Date (on letter): July 19 ..
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 2 pages, 199 mm x 164 mm

Content

Language: English
Incipit: As you & Mr R: Wharton seem determined for the foundation, I shall say...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 148-149, 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 XCVIII, vol. ii, pp. 389-390 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter CVI, vol. iii, pp. 285-286 - 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. CCXXIII, vol. ii, pp. 218-219 - 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. 337, vol. ii, pp. 742-743 - view pages