grayt.ead.0001-letters.0129 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.0129#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.0129 Gray, Thomas to Ashton, Thomas [17 June 1742] English MAHI

The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes

a MS transcript is at the British Library, Add. MSS 32562, ff. 142-143

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

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".

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 West, Richard, 1716-1742

Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive