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Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, [August 1736]

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Letter ID: letters.0648

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 19
Addressee: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Addressee's age: 18

Dates

Date of composition: [August 1736]
Calendar: Julian

Places

Place of composition: [London, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: English
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[Missing. Probably written in London shortly before Gray's departure for Burnham early in August. Mentioned post Aug. 1736 [letters.0029].]"
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. i, 105.

Holding Institution

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

Print Versions

  • 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, "From Gray, August 1736", vol. i, 105