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Thomas Gray to James Beattie, 2 October 1765

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Letter ID: letters.0467

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 48
Addressee: Beattie, James, 1735-1803 [i]
Addressee's age: 29

Dates

Date of composition: 2 October 1765 [i]
Date (on letter): Oct: 2. 1765
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: Glamis Castle, United Kingdom [i]
Address (on letter): Glames-Castle

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I must beg you would present my most grateful acknowledgements to your learned...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
AU MS 30/24/6/2, AU MS 30, Papers of James Beattie (1735-1803), Historic Collections, Special Libraries and Archives, King's College, University of Aberdeen Library [i], Aberdeen, UK <http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/historic/Manuscripts.shtml>
Availability: The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes; a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford

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 li, section iv, pp. 318-320 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by Thomas James Mathias. London: William Bulmer, 1814, section IV, letter LI, vol. i, pp. 418-420 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section IV, letter CXXII, vol. ii, pp. 458-459 - view pages
  • The Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. in one. London: J. Sharpe, 1819, letter CXXV, vol. ii, pp. 96-98 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter CXXXIII, vol. iv, pp. 63-65 - 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. CCLXXVIII, vol. iii, pp. 93-95 - 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. 413, vol. ii, pp. 895-896 - view pages