Letters, 1734-1771

• Correspondence with Brown, James

  • Archive Work ID: letters.brown_james
  • Correspondent: Brown, James
  • Language: English
  • Date Range: 1753-1771
  • Summary: 43 letters (43 from Gray), dated between 1753 and 1771.

  1 Manuscript:

  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0339 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Brown, James
    • Date: [28 May 1759]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK <http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/aboutus/msspb>
    • Alternate Form: a photograph is at Pembroke College, Cambridge, GBR/1058/GRA/5/4; a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 294, vol. ii, 622-623; Correspondence (1853), letter XLIX, 195-197; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CXCV, vol. ii, 113-114
    • Contents: Incipit: "You will receive tomorrow Caractacus piping hot, I hope before". Sent from [London]. to [Cambridge]. Envelope (front): "To The Revd Mr Brown, President of Pembroke-Hall Cambridge" Postmark: "29 MA".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.