grayt.ead.0001-letters.0347 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.0347#did0001 mss.letters Letters 1734-1771 letters.speed_henrietta Correspondence with Speed, Henrietta Jane 1750-1759 English

2 letters (2 to Gray), dated between 1750 and 1759.

 letters.0347 Speed, Henrietta Jane to Gray, Thomas 25 August 1759 A.L.S. 3 pages English PML 16518 (extra-illustrated copy of Gray's Odes), 16 Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts (LHMS) MOLI

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

a photostat each is in MS. Toynbee d.32 and c.2, Bodleian Library, Oxford

 Correspondence (1971), letter no. 300, vol. ii, 636-638 Gray and his Friends (1890), section V, 198-200

Incipit: "I wonder whether you think me capable of all the gratitude I really feel". Sent from [Stoke Poges]. Dateline: "25th August 59". Thanking him for his friendship, giving news of Lady Cobham, urging him to go to the country rather than withstanding the heat of London, and commenting on news of the "K. of P." and others. [With notes (a list) on the verso, perhaps in Gray's hand.].

 Stoke Manor House

Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive

Digital facsimile from ToD_1890

Digital facsimile from ToD_1890

Digital facsimile from ToD_1890