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Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, [c. 23 March 1771]

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Letter ID: letters.0627

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 54
Addressee: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Addressee's age: 53

Dates

Date of composition: [c. 23 March 1771]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [Cambridge, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[In his letter to Gray of 25 Mar. (Letter 546 [letters.0628]) Walpole says in a postscript: 'I have this minute received yours.' Gray's letter, which must have been written from Cambridge on 23 or 24 Mar., is not extant.]"
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], vol. iii, 1175.

Holding Institution

Availability: The original letter is not extant, no copy, transcription, or published version survives

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, section v, 385 note
  • The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. Ed. by W. S. Lewis. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP; London: Oxford UP, 1937-83, vols. 13/14: Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Gray, Richard West and Thomas Ashton i, 1734-42, Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Gray ii, 1745-71, ed. by W. S. Lewis, George L. Lam and Charles H. Bennett, 1948, vol. ii, 188
  • 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. 545**, vol. iii, 1175