grayt.ead.0001-letters.0075 Thomas Gray Manuscripts: An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive. Alexander Huber Thomas Gray Archive 2006 Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber, Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005- English grayt.ead.0001-letters.0075#did0001 mss.letters Letters 1734-1771 letters.ashton_thomas Correspondence with Ashton, Thomas 1738-1742 English

7 letters (7 from Gray), dated between 1738 and 1742.

 letters.0075 Gray, Thomas and Walpole, Horace to Ashton, Thomas [July 1739] English PRIV

The original letter is extant, but there is no further information about its availability

Sotheby's, 21 July 1981, Lot 501, owned by Lawrence G. Blackmon; a photocopy is at the British Library, RP 3096; a MS transcript is at the British Library, Add. MSS 32562, ff. 151-152

 Correspondence (1971), letter no. 65, vol. i, 114-115 Correspondence (1915), letter no. 96, vol. i, 236-237 Gray and his Friends (1890), section I, letter no. 4, 45-47 Letters (1900-12), letter no. XX, vol. i, 32-33 Walpole's Correspondence (1948), vol. i, 176-177

Incipit: "The exceeding Slowness and Sterility of me, & this Place". Sent from Reims. to [London]. Dateline: "July". Address: "Rheims". Envelope (front): "To / Mr Ashton at Mrs Lewes's / Hanover Square London. / Franc à Paris. / pour l'Angleterre".

 Rheims

Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive

Digital facsimile from TyP_1915

Digital facsimile from TyP_1915