Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, [14 June 1756]
Letter ID:
letters.0248
Correspondents
Writer's age: 39
Addressee's age: 39[?]
Dates
Calendar: Gregorian
Places
Content
Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[In MS. Brit. Mus. Egerton 2,400, immediately after Gray's letter to Wharton of 25 March 1756 (Letter 214 [letters.0245]) follows a cover addressed by Gray
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, 465.
Towith postmark 15 iv, and endorsed by Wharton 'Mr Gray 14 June 1756', but the letter to which it belongs has disappeared.]"
Thomas Wharton M:D: in
King's-Arms Yard Coleman
Street
London
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, 465.
Holding Institution
Availability: The original letter is not extant, no copy, transcription, or published version survives; the envelope is in Egerton MS 2400, f. 83, Manuscripts collection, British Library, London, UK
Print Versions
- The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by Thomas James Mathias. London: William Bulmer, 1814, section IV, letter XXIII, vol. i, 352-353
- 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. 217, vol. ii, 465