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Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, [7 November 1745]

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Letter ID: letters.0650

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 28
Addressee: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Addressee's age: 28

Dates

Date of composition: [7 November 1745]
Calendar: Julian

Places

Place of composition: [London, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: English
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[Missing. Gray wrote to Wharton 14 Nov. 1745 (Gray's Corr. i. 226 [letters.0134]): 'I wrote a note [to HW] the night I came [to London] and immediately received a very civil answer.']"
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, 1.

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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, Thursday 7 November 1745", vol. ii, 1