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            <titleproper encodinganalog="245$a">Thomas Gray Manuscripts:</titleproper>
            <subtitle>An Inventory at the <emph render="italic">Thomas Gray Archive</emph>.</subtitle>
            <author encodinganalog="245$c">Alexander Huber</author>
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								Editor, <emph render="italic">Thomas Gray Archive</emph>, <date normal="2005">2005-</date>
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                        <extref href="http://www.e-enlightenment.com/search/letters/print/?printref_sourceedition=graythOU0084&amp;printref_docnumber=195">
                           <emph render="italic">Correspondence</emph> (1971), letter no. 195, vol. i, 418-419</extref>
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                           <emph render="italic">Correspondence</emph> (1853), letter VIII, 26-29</extref>
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                           <emph render="italic">Letters</emph> (1900-12), letter no. CXVII, vol. i, 259-261</extref>
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                     <p>Incipit: "I am gathering together my disjecta Membra &amp; as a specimen I send you". Sent from <geogname normal="London (Greater London, England, United Kingdom), inhabited place [7011781]"
                                  source="tgn">London</geogname>. Dateline: "March 1<emph render="super">st</emph>-55". Address: "Arlington Street".</p>
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                     <persname role="subject">Voltaire</persname>
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                     <geogname>Hanover</geogname>
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                        <p>Letter record at the <emph render="italic">Thomas Gray Archive</emph>
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