Letters, 1734-1771

• Correspondence with Ashton, Thomas

  • Archive Work ID: letters.ashton_thomas
  • Correspondent: Ashton, Thomas
  • Language: English
  • Date Range: 1738-1742
  • Summary: 7 letters (7 from Gray), dated between 1738 and 1742.

  1 Manuscript:

  • • Archive MS ID: letters.0129 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Gray, Thomas to Ashton, Thomas
    • Date: [17 June 1742]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Maine Historical Society, Portland, ME, USA <http://www.mainehistory.org/>
    • Alternate Form: a MS transcript is at the British Library, Add. MSS 32562, ff. 142-143
    • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 111, vol. i, 213-214; Correspondence (1915), letter no. 153, vol. ii, 48-49; Gray and his Friends (1890), section II, letter no. 42, 170-171; Letters (1900-12), letter no. LVII, vol. i, 111
    • Contents: Incipit: "This melancholy day is the first that I have had any notice of my Loss". Sent from Stoke Poges. Julian calendar. Dateline: "June 17- 1742". Address: "Stoke".
    • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.