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Thomas Gray to James Beattie, [16 July 1769]

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Letter ID: letters.0560

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 52
Addressee: Beattie, James, 1735-1803 [i]
Addressee's age: 33
Mentioned: Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: [16 July 1769] [i]
Date (on letter): [July 16, 1769]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I have been so unfortunate as to lose the pleasure of seeing your two Friends...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
AU MS 30/24/6/7, 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; a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford

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 iii, section v, pp. 348-350 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by Thomas James Mathias. London: William Bulmer, 1814, section V, letter III, vol. i, pp. 445-446 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section V, letter IV, vol. ii, pp. 516-517 - view pages
  • The Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. in one. London: J. Sharpe, 1819, letter CXLIII, vol. ii, pp. 134-135 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section V, letter V, vol. iv, pp. 137-138 - 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, fragment, letter no. CCCXLVIII, vol. iii, pp. 228-230 - 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. 501, vol. iii, pp. 1070-1072 - view pages