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Thomas Gray to Mary Antrobus, [after 3 May 1759]

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Remember then, I expect you on Saturday to dine, as I said before. therefore if your affairs are any how untoward, let me know by the Penny-post: if I hear nothing, I conclude you will come.

Letter ID: letters.0340 (Source: TEI/XML)

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 42
Addressee: Antrobus, Mary, b. 1732
Addressee's age: 27[?]

Dates

Date of composition: [after 3 May 1759]
Date (on letter): Thursday
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [London, United Kingdom]
Place of addressee: [London, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: English
Incipit: Remember then, I expect you on Saturday to dine, as I said before....
Contents: "[Note of 4 1/2 lines, 4to, undated and unsigned, saying he expects her to dinner on Saturday unless he hears by the Penny Post. Sold at Sotheby's, 8 July 1915 (Lot 383); present whereabouts unknown [see below for updated information]. The name of addressee and date are conjectural. On 3 May Gray had written to Mary Antrobus to say how glad he should be to see her in town (see Letter 293 [letters.0338]). The reference to the Penny Post shows that the addressee must have been in London, and it is not unreasonable to suggest that the letter was addressed to Mary Antrobus soon after the letter of 3 May.]"
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, 623-624.
Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] and transcript from original letter

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
33 1 copy 10, The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Library , New Haven, CT (Beinecke)/Farmington, CT (Lewis Walpole), USA <http://www.library.yale.edu/>
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. 295, vol. ii, 623-624