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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, [14 June 1756]

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Letter ID: letters.0248

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 39
Addressee: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794
Addressee's age: 39[?]

Dates

Date of composition: [14 June 1756]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [Cambridge, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[In MS. Brit. Mus. Egerton 2,400, immediately after Gray's letter to Wharton of 25 March 1756 (Letter 214 [letters.0245]) follows a cover addressed by Gray
    To
Thomas Wharton M:D: in
King's-Arms Yard Coleman
Street
        London
with postmark 15 iv, and endorsed by Wharton 'Mr Gray 14 June 1756', but the letter to which it belongs has disappeared.]"
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. ii, 465.
Mentioned: Stoke Poges
Tunbridge

Holding Institution

Availability: The original letter is not extant, no copy, transcription, or published version survives; the envelope is in Egerton MS 2400, f. 83, Manuscripts collection, British Library, London, UK

Print Versions

  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by Thomas James Mathias. London: William Bulmer, 1814, section IV, letter XXIII, vol. i, 352-353
  • 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. 217, vol. ii, 465