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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, 28 December 1767

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Letter ID: letters.0515

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 51
Addressee: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794 [i]
Addressee's age: 50[?]
Mentioned: Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795 [i]
Mason, William, 1724-1797 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: 28 December 1767 [i]
Date (on letter): Dec: 28. 1767
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: Cambridge, United Kingdom [i]
Address (on letter): Pemb: Coll:

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 4 pages, 228 mm x 185 mm

Content

Language: English
Incipit: Many & various maladies have I labour'd under, since I left the north,...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 178-179, 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 Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section IV, letter CXXXII, vol. ii, pp. 483-487 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter CXLIII, vol. iv, pp. 93-97 - 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. CCCXV, vol. iii, pp. 163-168 - 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. 459, vol. iii, pp. 986-990 - view pages