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Thomas Gray to James Brown, [1 or 8 October 1764]

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Letter ID: letters.0445

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 47
Addressee: Brown, James, 1709-1784 [i]
Addressee's age: 55[?]
Mentioned: How, William Taylor, d. 1777 [i]
Talbot, William, d. 1811 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: [1 or 8 October 1764] [i]
Date (on letter): Monday
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: Southampton, United Kingdom [i]
Address (on letter): Southampton, at Mr Vining's, Plumber, in High-Steet - - - - -

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.; 2 pages, 226 mm x 188 mm

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I received your letter, before I left London, & sit down to write to you...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Add. MSS 19918, f. 17, 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 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 LXXXVI, pp. 328-330 - 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. CCLX, vol. iii, pp. 40-42 - 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. 392, vol. ii, pp. 843-844 - view pages