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Thomas Gray to James Beattie, [8 March 1771]

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Letter ID: letters.0624

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 54
Addressee: Beattie, James, 1735-1803 [i]
Addressee's age: 35

Dates

Date of composition: [8 March 1771] [i]
Date (on letter): [8th March, 1771]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Content

Language: English
Incipit: The Minstrel came safe to my hands, and I return you my sincere thanks...

Holding Institution

Availability: The original letter is unlocated, a copy, transcription, or published version survives

Print Versions

  • An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, including many of his original letters, 2 vols. Ed. by Sir William Forbes. Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1806, vol. i, pp. 196 ff.
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, vol. iv, pp. 309-312 - 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. CCCLXXIX, vol. iii, pp. 305-311 - view pages
  • Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray. Ed. with Introduction and Notes by Clark Sutherland Northup. Boston and London: D. C. Heath & Co., 1911, letter excerpt, pp. 303-307 - 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. 544, vol. iii, pp. 1168-1171 - view pages