Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, 26 May 1769
To The Honble Horace Walpole in Arlington Street London
27 MA
Pembroke-Hall. 26 May. 1769
Old Cole lives at Water-Beach near the road from Cambridge to Ely: but I believe, you had best send the book to me, & I will take care it shall be deliver'd to him. I have not seen it yet, but propose to buy it on your recommendation. if it has a hundrdth part of Linnæus's merit, it must be divine! what the title means, I do not conceive.
Letter ID:
letters.0554 (Source: TEI/XML)
Correspondents
Writer's age: 52
Addressee's age: 51
Dates
Date (on letter): 26 May. 1769
Calendar: Gregorian
Places
Address (on letter): Pembroke-Hall
Physical description
Addressed: To The Honble Horace Walpole in Arlington Street London (postmark: 27 MA)
Content
Language: English
Incipit: Old Cole lives at Water-Beach near the road from Cambridge to Ely:...
Holding Institution
Location:
(confirmed)
GBR/1058/GRA/3/4/102, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge , Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
(confirmed)
GBR/1058/GRA/3/4/102, 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. 245, vol. ii, 292
- 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, 185
- 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. 495, vol. iii, 1060-1061