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Thomas Gray to John Chute, [c. 1 September 1741]

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Letter ID: letters.0113

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 24
Addressee: Chute, John, 1701-1776
Addressee's age: 39

Dates

Date of composition: [c. 1 September 1741]
Calendar: Julian

Places

Place of composition: [Dover, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[In his letter to Chute of 7 Sept. 1741 (Letter 99 [letters.0114]) Gray addresses him as 'suavissime Chutî! whom I wrote to from Dover'. The letter was no doubt written on the day Gray landed at Dover on his way to London, which Mason says he reached about 1 Sept.]"
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, 184.

Holding Institution

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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. 98, vol. i, 184