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Thomas Gray to James Brown, 31 October 1767

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Letter ID: letters.0510

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 50
Addressee: Brown, James, 1709-1784 [i]
Addressee's age: 58[?]
Mentioned: Algarotti, Francesco, Conte, 1712-1764 [i]
Antrobus, Mary, b. 1732 [i]
Beattie, James, 1735-1803 [i]
How, William Taylor, d. 1777 [i]
Nicholls, Norton, c. 1742-1809 [i]
Palgrave, William, 1735-1799 [i]
Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: 31 October 1767 [i]
Date (on letter): Sat: 31. Oct: 1767
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: York, United Kingdom [i]
Address (on letter): York

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I have received a letter from Howe, another from Mr Beattie, & a third...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Frederick W. Hilles Manuscript Collection, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University Library [i], New Haven, CT (Beinecke)/Farmington, CT (Lewis Walpole), USA <http://www.library.yale.edu/>
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 CXVIII, pp. 409-411 - 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. CCCXII, vol. iii, p. 160 - 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. 454, vol. iii, pp. 978-979 - view pages