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Thomas Gray to James Beattie, 1 February 1768

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Letter ID: letters.0522

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 51
Addressee: Beattie, James, 1735-1803 [i]
Addressee's age: 32
Mentioned: Dodsley, James, 1724-1797 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: 1 February 1768 [i]
Date (on letter): Feb: 1. 1768
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: Cambridge, United Kingdom [i]
Address (on letter): Pembroke-Hall

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I am almost sorry to have raised any degree of impatience in you,...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
AU MS 30/24/6/5, 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; covering letter only (a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford), the instructions for printing are at Princeton University Library, Robert H. Taylor Collection, section I. Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, vol. 52

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 lvii, section iv, pp. 329-330 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by Thomas James Mathias. London: William Bulmer, 1814, section IV, letter LVII, vol. i, pp. 428-429 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section IV, letter CXXXIV, vol. ii, pp. 490-491 - view pages
  • The Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. in one. London: J. Sharpe, 1819, letter CXXXIV, vol. ii, pp. 114-116 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter CXLVI, vol. iv, pp. 101-103 - 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. CCCXX, vol. iii, pp. 175-177 - 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. 466, vol. iii, pp. 1001-1004 - view pages