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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, [10 November 1754]

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To
Dr Thomas Wharton, MD
in Kings-Arms Yard, Coleman
Street
London
SAFFRON WALDEN 11 NO

Dear Doctor

I am clear, that you are in the right way & that you ought to make your excuses at the Queen's Arms with all possible civility to Foth:ll; and perhaps the civilest excuse is to tell the truth, to him at least, that it would be neither grateful, nor prudent, to hazard disobliging the Gentlemen at the Mitre, among whom you have several Friends, & besides it will be always more in your power to recommend moderate measures, while you continue connected with one Party, than if you should lose yourself with both by seeming to divide yourself between them. but how far this is to be said, & to whom, you are best able to determine.

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Letter ID: letters.0224 (Source: TEI/XML)

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 37
Addressee: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794
Addressee's age: 37[?]

Dates

Date of composition: [10 November 1754]
Date (on letter): Oct: 10. 1754
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Address (on letter): Camb:
Place of addressee: [London, United Kingdom]

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.; 1 page, 201 mm x 161 mm
Addressed: To / Dr Thomas Wharton, MD / in Kings-Arms Yard, Coleman / Street / London (postmark: SAFFRON WALDEN 11 NO)

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I am clear, that you are in the right way & that you ought to make...
Mentioned: London

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 65-66, Manuscripts collection, British Library , London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
Availability: The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes

Print Versions

  • The Letters of Thomas Gray, including the correspondence of Gray and Mason, 3 vols. Ed. by Duncan C. Tovey. London: George Bell and Sons, 1900-12, letter no. CXV, vol. i, 256
  • 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. 193, vol. i, 411-412