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Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, 10 July 1764

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To The Honble Horace Walpole in Arlington Street London M:P:
SAFFRON WALDEN IY

I send you the list you desired, wch now perhaps signifies little, but I could not procure it sooner. Harding is N: Harding's Son: his Uncle Pratt has taken him away, & written a proper letter to Dr Smith on the occasion.

Has Ld Herbert drown'd himself in his own purling stream, or has he only wetted his ruff, & discomposed his mustachoes? & what has the Man-mountain been doing at Court?

Adieu, I am ever
Yours
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Letter ID: letters.0441 (Source: TEI/XML)

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 47
Addressee: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Addressee's age: 46

Dates

Date of composition: 10 July 1764
Date (on letter): July 10. 1764
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [Cambridge, United Kingdom]
Place of addressee: [London, United Kingdom]

Physical description

Addressed: To The Honble Horace Walpole in Arlington Street London M:P: (postmark: SAFFRON WALDEN IY)

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I send you the list you desired, wch now perhaps signifies little,...
Mentioned: Herbert of Cherbury, 1st Baron

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
GBR/1058/GRA/3/4/95, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge , 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. 229, vol. ii, 230-231
  • 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, 135-136
  • 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. 389, vol. ii, 835-836