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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, [29 September 1752]

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To
Dr Wharton, M:D: at Mr
Espalin's, Barber, in Southampton
Building's
Holborn
London
[29] SE

My dear Wharton

I shall certainly be in Town on Monday next, for Mr Brown informed me you would arrive there on the 30th, & I order'd my Matters here accordingly. you will see me the Instant I come, having (I need not tell you) not only nothing I like better to do there, but literally nothing else, than to see you. I have not time to enlarge, as I send this by a Person who is just going from our House to Uxbridge, tho' to my Shame I stand indebted to you for a very kind Letter I received long ago.

Adieu, I am always
Very truly Yours,
T GRAY.
Letter ID: letters.0192 (Source: TEI/XML)

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 35
Addressee: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794
Addressee's age: 35[?]

Dates

Date of composition: [29 September 1752]
Date (on letter): Sept: 29
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: Stoke Poges, United Kingdom
Address (on letter): Stoke
Place of addressee: [London, United Kingdom]

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 1 page, 198 mm x 156 mm
Addressed: To / Dr Wharton, M:D: at Mr / Espalin's, Barber, in Southampton / Building's / Holborn / London (postmark: [29] SE)

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I shall certainly be in Town on Monday next, for Mr Brown...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 58-59, 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, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section IV, letter XLI, vol. ii, 243
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter XLVIII, vol. iii, 116
  • 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. CX, vol. i, 241
  • 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. 169*, vol. i, 365