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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, [November 1769]

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Letter ID: letters.0569

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 52
Addressee: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794 [i]
Addressee's age: 52[?]

Dates

Date of composition: [November 1769] [i]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.; 4 pages, 223 mm x 180 mm

Content

Language: English
Incipit: Oct: 3. The hills here are cloth'd all up their steep sides with oak,...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 195-196, 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 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 iv, section v, pp. 357-360 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section V, journal 3, letter VII, vol. ii, pp. 526-531 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section V, letter VIII, vol. iv, pp. 149-154 - 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, journal 3, vol. iii, pp. 239-243 - 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. 508*, vol. iii, pp. 1087-1091 - view pages