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Thomas Gray to James Brown, [c. 28 May 1767]

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Letter ID: letters.0497

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 50
Addressee: Brown, James, 1709-1784 [i]
Addressee's age: 58[?]
Mentioned: Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795 [i]
Palgrave, William, 1735-1799 [i]
Talbot, William, d. 1811 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: [c. 28 May 1767] [i]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Content

Language: English
Incipit: How do you do, good Mr. Brown? Do your inclinations begin to draw...

Holding Institution

Availability: The original letter is unlocated, a copy, transcription, or published version survives

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, pp. 385-388 - 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. CCXCIX, vol. iii, pp. 139-142 - 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. 441, vol. iii, pp. 958-960 - view pages