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Thomas Gray to James Brown, 22 May 1770

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Letter ID: letters.0603

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 53
Addressee: Brown, James, 1709-1784 [i]
Addressee's age: 61[?]
Mentioned: Palgrave, William, 1735-1799 [i]
Stonhewer, Richard, 1728-1809 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: 22 May 1770 [i]
Date (on letter): 22 May. 1770
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: London, United Kingdom [i]
Address (on letter): Jermyn Street

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I have received two letters from you with one enclosed from Paris,...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Library, Historical Society of Pennsylvania [i], Philadelphia, PA, USA <http://www.hsp.org/>
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 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 CXXXI, pp. 439-442 - 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. CCCLXVII, vol. iii, pp. 284-286 - 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. 525, vol. iii, pp. 1134-1136 - view pages