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Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, 22 July 1758

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To The Honble Horace Walpole, at the Honble Mr Bateman's Old-Windsor

I have been in Town at your house, & left a note there for you: on my return hither I have received your second letter. on Monday I am going with the Cobhams to Hampton, & propose to come from thence to Strawberry on Wednesday evening, or Thursday before dinner. I am sorry to hear of Mr C:s illness: it is likely, he will not be able to go into the country; but if he does, I shall be glad to attend you thither, & back again, if you will take that trouble upon you.

I am
Yours ever
TG:
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Letter ID: letters.0315 (Source: TEI/XML)

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 41
Addressee: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Addressee's age: 40

Dates

Date of composition: 22 July 1758
Date (on letter): July 22. 1758
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: Stoke Poges, United Kingdom
Address (on letter): Stoke

Physical description

Addressed: To The Honble Horace Walpole, at the Honble Mr Bateman's Old-Windsor

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I have been in Town at your house, & left a note there for you:...
Mentioned: Chute, John, 1701-1776
Hampton
Speed, Henrietta Jane, 1728-1783

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
GBR/1058/GRA/3/4/81, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge , Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
Availability: The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes

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. 209, vol. ii, 177-178
  • 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, 102
  • 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. 273, vol. ii, 575-576