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Thomas Gray to James Brown, [before 17 February 1763]

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Letter ID: letters.0420

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 46
Addressee: Brown, James, 1709-1784 [i]
Addressee's age: 54[?]
Mentioned: Algarotti, Francesco, Conte, 1712-1764 [i]
How, William Taylor, d. 1777 [i]
Macpherson, James, 1736-1796 [i]
Mason, William, 1724-1797 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: [before 17 February 1763] [i]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.; 1 page, 226 mm x 186 mm

Content

Language: English
Incipit: You will make my best acknowledgements to Mr Howe, who not content...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Add. MSS 26889, ff. 23-24, 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 Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W[illiam]. Mason. York: printed by A. Ward; and sold by J. Dodsley, London; and J. Todd, York, 1775, letter xlv, section iv, pp. 300-301 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by Thomas James Mathias. London: William Bulmer, 1814, section IV, letter XLV, vol. i, pp. 402-403 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section IV, letter CVI, vol. ii, pp. 410-411 - view pages
  • The Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. in one. London: J. Sharpe, 1819, letter CXVII, vol. ii, pp. 73-74 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter CXVII, vol. iv, pp. 6-7 - 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. CCXLIX, vol. iii, pp. 8-9 - view pages
  • Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray. Ed. with Introduction and Notes by Clark Sutherland Northup. Boston and London: D. C. Heath & Co., 1911, letter excerpt, pp. 257-258 - 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. 367, vol. ii, pp. 797-798 - view pages