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Thomas Gray to William Palgrave, [December 1768]

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Letter ID: letters.0546

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 52
Addressee: Palgrave, William, 1735-1799
Addressee's age: 33[?]

Dates

Date of composition: [December 1768]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [Cambridge, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[In his letter to Mason of 29 Dec. 1768 (Letter 489 [letters.0547]) Gray says that he has been forced to write to Palgrave about the secret which Mason had imparted to Palgrave.]"
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], vol. iii, 1051.

Holding Institution

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Print Versions

  • 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. 488*, vol. iii, 1051