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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, 17 January 1768

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To
Dr Wharton at Mr Wharton's
in Boswell-Court, Carey-street
London

Pemb: Coll: 17 Jan: 1768.
Dear Sr

I was much surprised to receive a letter superscribed in your hand from London, & am very sorry to see, what occasion'd it. I fear the event the more, because in his best health Mr Wharton had always some complaint in his breast, & now the distemper has fallen upon the weak part.

Whenever you are able to disengage yourself, Mr Brown & I shall flatter ourselves with the hopes of seeing you at Cambridge for as long a time as you can afford to bestow on us. it is likely you may find Mason too with us, for he talks of setting out about the 20th to come hither.

I am ever very sincerely
Yours
T G:
Letter ID: letters.0519 (Source: TEI/XML)

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 51
Addressee: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794
Addressee's age: 51[?]

Dates

Date of composition: 17 January 1768
Date (on letter): 17 Jan: 1768
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 1 page, 229 mm x 182 mm
Addressed: To / Dr Wharton at Mr Wharton's / in Boswell-Court, Carey-street / London (postmark: [illeg.])

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I was much surprised to receive a letter superscribed in your hand from London,...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 180-181, 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 Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter CXLV, vol. iv, 101
  • 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. CCCXIX, vol. iii, 175
  • 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. 463, vol. iii, 997