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Horace Walpole to Thomas Gray, [c. 15 February 1753]

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Letter ID: letters.0201

Correspondents

Writer: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Writer's age: 35
Addressee: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Addressee's age: 36

Dates

Date of composition: [c. 15 February 1753]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [London, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[In his letter to Gray of 20 Feb. 1753 (Letter 174 [letters.0203]) Walpole refers to a note he had written to Gray to allay his uneasiness in reply to his protest (Letter 173 [letters.0200]) against the proposal to prefix his portrait. This note was written in haste, as Walpole explains.]"
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, 373.

Holding Institution

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

Print Versions

  • The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. Ed. by W. S. Lewis. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP; London: Oxford UP, 1937-83, vols. 13/14: Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Gray, Richard West and Thomas Ashton i, 1734-42, Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Gray ii, 1745-71, ed. by W. S. Lewis, George L. Lam and Charles H. Bennett, 1948, vol. ii, 64
  • 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. 173*, vol. i, 373