Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, [21 October 1757]
To The Hon:ble Horace Walpole Arlington Street
I have looked with all my eyes, & can not discover one error, wch is the greatest misfortune, that can befall a Critick.
TG:
Friday.
Letter ID:
letters.0289 (Source: TEI/XML)
Correspondents
Writer's age: 40
Addressee's age: 40
Dates
Date (on letter): Friday
Calendar: Gregorian
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Physical description
Addressed: To The Hon:ble Horace Walpole Arlington Street
Content
Language: English
Incipit: I have looked with all my eyes, & can not discover one error,...
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GBR/1058/GRA/3/4/79, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge , Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
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GBR/1058/GRA/3/4/79, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge , Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
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Print Versions
- The Correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West and Ashton (1734-1771), 2 vols. Chronologically arranged and edited with introduction, notes, and index by Paget Toynbee. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915, letter no. 207, vol. ii, 174
- 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, 101
- 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. 254, vol. ii, 535