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Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, 12 December 1757

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To
Dr Wharton M:D: in
King's-Arms Yard Coleman-Street
London
13 DE

Dear Doctor

You will wonder, why I trouble you so soon with another letter. it is about the great box, wch I committed to the care of your John, & wch does not yet make its appearance at Cambridge: in it are all my shoes, clogs, Encyclopedie, & other rich moveables, & I begin to fear it has miscarried. I shall be much obliged to you, if you will let him make enquiry after it.

What are we to believe about Silesia? am I to make bonfires, or keep a general fast? pray, rid me of this suspence, for it is very uneasy to me.

I am ever
Yours
TG:
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Letter ID: letters.0294 (Source: TEI/XML)

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 41
Addressee: Wharton, Thomas, 1717-1794
Addressee's age: 40[?]

Dates

Date of composition: 12 December 1757
Date (on letter): Dec: 12. 1757
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

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

Physical description

Form/Extent: A.L.S.; 1 page, 206 mm x 160 mm
Addressed: To / Dr Wharton M:D: in / King's-Arms Yard Coleman-Street / London (postmark: 13 DE)

Content

Language: English
Incipit: You will wonder, why I trouble you so soon with another letter....
Mentioned: Encyclopédie
Silesia

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
Egerton MS 2400, ff. 100-101, 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 LXIX, vol. ii, 301
  • The Works of Thomas Gray, 5 vols. Ed. by John Mitford. London: W. Pickering, 1835-1843, section IV, letter LXXVII, vol. iii, 182-183
  • 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. CLV, vol. i, 372
  • 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. 258, vol. ii, 542-543