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Thomas Gray to Henrietta Jane Speed, [c. 20 August 1759]

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Letter ID: letters.0346

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 42
Addressee: Speed, Henrietta Jane, 1728-1783
Addressee's age: 31

Dates

Date of composition: [c. 20 August 1759]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [London, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[It appears from Miss Speed's letter to Gray of 25 Aug. 1759 [letters.0347] that Gray had written to her not long before, telling her among other things of the defeat of Frederick the Great at Kunersdorf on 12 Aug. (see Letter 299* [letters.0345], n. 6).]"
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, 636.

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. 299**, vol. ii, 636