Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, [3 March 1757]
To
Dr Thomas Wharton MD:
in Kings-Arms Yard
Coleman Street
London
4 MA
Thursday – Camb:e.
Dear doctor
I accept with pleasure your kind invitation, & have agreed to accompany Mr Balguy & Mr Hurd to Town on Saturday. what I have farther to say, I defer to that time: I need not tell you how much I wish for it, or that I am ever
Sincerely Yours
TG:
My best Compliments to Mrs Wharton.
Letter ID:
letters.0266 (Source: TEI/XML)
Correspondents
Writer's age: 40
Addressee's age: 40[?]
Dates
Date (on letter): Thursday
Calendar: Gregorian
Places
Address (on letter): Camb:e
Physical description
Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 1 page, 202 mm x 163 mm
Addressed: To / Dr Thomas Wharton MD: / in Kings-Arms Yard / Coleman Street / London (postmark: 4 MA)
Content
Language: English
Incipit: I accept with pleasure your kind invitation, & have agreed to accompany...
Holding Institution
Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 88-89, Manuscripts collection, British Library , London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 88-89, 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. CXXXIV, vol. i, 309
- 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. 234, vol. ii, 496