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Richard West to Thomas Gray, [June 1739]

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Letter ID: letters.0072

Correspondents

Writer: West, Richard, 1716-1742
Writer's age: 23[?]
Addressee: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Addressee's age: 22

Dates

Date of composition: [June 1739]
Calendar: Julian

Places

Place of composition: [London, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[Gray, in a letter (Letter 131 [letters.0149]) to Walpole, which may be dated 8 Feb. 1747, mentions in a list of West's poems 'A Translation from Propertius ... (sent to me at Rheims)'. The translation (which is printed by Tovey in Gray and his Friends, pp. 127-8) was transcribed by Gray in his Commonplace-book with a note/ 'Fav: June 1739'. This must have been sent to Gray in a letter no longer extant.]"
Correspondence of Thomas Gray, 3 vols. Ed. by the late Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley, with corrections and additions by H. W. Starr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971 [1st ed. 1935], vol. i, 111.

Holding Institution

Availability: The original letter is not extant, no copy, transcription, or published version survives

Print Versions

  • Correspondence of Thomas Gray, 3 vols. Ed. by the late Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley, with corrections and additions by H. W. Starr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971 [1st ed. 1935], letter no. 63*, vol. i, 111