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Thomas Gray to James Brown, [22 June 1771]

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To
The Revd the Master of
Pembroke Hall
Cambridge
22 IV

Dear Sr

I write just to tell you the reason of my stay here. the Gout has left me, but I have a feverish disorder, that seems to return regularly upon me every morning, & leaves me very weak & spiritless. another complaint has come upon me yesterday, that makes me unfit to bear the journey to Cambridge. Dr Gisburne advises me to take a lodgeing at Kensington for a week or two, & I believe, I shall try this expedient tomorrow. my illness has prevented me from doing any thing about your carpet, wch I hope you will excuse. pray, write to me & direct as usual in Jermyn-Street.

I am ever
Yours
T G:
Letter ID: letters.0638 (Source: TEI/XML)

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 54
Addressee: Brown, James, 1709-1784
Addressee's age: 62[?]

Dates

Date of composition: [22 June 1771]
Date (on letter): Saturday
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 1 page, 204 mm x 171 mm
Addressed: To / The Revd the Master of / Pembroke Hall / Cambridge (postmark: 22 IV)

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I write just to tell you the reason of my stay here. the Gout has left me...
Mentioned: London
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original letter

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
MS. Montagu d. 17, fols. 93-94, Montagu papers, Special Collections, Bodleian Library, Oxford University , Oxford, UK <http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston/finding-resources/locations>
Availability: The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes

Print Versions

  • 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. 555, vol. iii, 1190-1191