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Thomas Gray to James Brown, [c. 20 April 1769]

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Letter ID: letters.0553

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 52
Addressee: Brown, James, 1709-1784 [i]
Addressee's age: 60[?]
Mentioned: Palgrave, William, 1735-1799 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: [c. 20 April 1769] [i]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I am sorry to think you are coming to town at a time when I am ready to leave it;...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Misc. MSS, Manuscript Collections, The Lewis Walpole 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 CXXXV, pp. 454-456 - 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. CCCXLIV, vol. iii, pp. 221-223 - 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. 494, vol. iii, pp. 1058-1060 - view pages