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Thomas Gray to James Brown, 18 November 1766

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Letter ID: letters.0487

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 49
Addressee: Brown, James, 1709-1784 [i]
Addressee's age: 57[?]
Mentioned: Mason, William, 1724-1797 [i]
Palgrave, William, 1735-1799 [i]
Talbot, William, d. 1811 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: 18 November 1766 [i]
Date (on letter): 18 Nov: 1766
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: London, United Kingdom [i]
Address (on letter): Jermyn-Street

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I paid the sum abovemention'd this morning at Gillam's Office in...

Holding Institution

Location:
(unconfirmed)
Rosenbach Museum & Library [i], Philadelphia, PA, USA <http://www.rosenbach.org/>
Availability: The original letter is extant, but there is no further information about its availability

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 CI, pp. 367-368 - 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. CCXCI, vol. iii, pp. 129-130 - 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. 431, vol. iii, pp. 945-946 - view pages