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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, 2 February 1771

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Letter ID: letters.0622

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 54
Addressee: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794 [i]
Addressee's age: 54[?]
Mentioned: Brown, James, 1709-1784 [i]
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811 [i]
Mason, William, 1724-1797 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: 2 February 1771 [i]
Date (on letter): 2 Feb: 1771
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 3 pages, 225 mm x 185 mm
Address panel: To / Thomas Wharton Esq / of Old-Park near / Darlington / Durham (postmark: CAMBRIDGE)

Content

Language: English
Incipit: It never rains, but it pours, my dear Doctor. you will be glad to hear,...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 216-217, 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 Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section V, letter XVII, vol. ii, pp. 564-566 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section V, letter XVIII, vol. iv, pp. 196-199 - 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. CCCLXXVII, vol. iii, pp. 301-302 - 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. 542, vol. iii, pp. 1164-1166 - view pages