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Robert Dodsley to Thomas Gray, [November 1752]

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Letter ID: letters.0193

Correspondents

Writer: Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764
Writer's age: 49
Addressee: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Addressee's age: 35

Dates

Date of composition: [November 1752]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [London, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[In his letter to Walpole of 17 Dec. 1752 (Letter 170 [letters.0196]) Gray speaks of having received a letter from Dodsley, written by Walpole's directions, with regard to the volume of Gray's Six Poems, with Bentley's designs, which Dodsley was preparing for publication.]"
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. i, 365-366.

Holding Institution

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

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. 169**, vol. i, 365-366