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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, 15 October 1756

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Letter ID: letters.0259

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [i]
Writer's age: 39
Addressee: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794 [i]
Addressee's age: 39[?]
Mentioned: Chute, John, 1701-1776 [i]

Dates

Date of composition: 15 October 1756 [i]
Date (on letter): Oct: 15. 1756
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 3 pages, 161 mm x 101 mm

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I have not been dead, but only gone to [Mr Chute who had been] seized...

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 84-85, Manuscripts collection, British Library [i], 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 Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W[illiam]. Mason. York: printed by A. Ward; and sold by J. Dodsley, London; and J. Todd, York, 1775, letter xxiii, section iv, p. 244 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816, section IV, letter LIV, vol. ii, pp. 276-277 - view pages
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter LXII, vol. iii, pp. 154-155 - view pages
  • 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. CXXXIII, vol. i, pp. 305-309 - view pages
  • Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray. Ed. with Introduction and Notes by Clark Sutherland Northup. Boston and London: D. C. Heath & Co., 1911, letter excerpt, p. 184 - view pages
  • 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. 228, vol. ii, pp. 482-485 - view pages