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Thomas Gray to Richard West, [c. April 1741]

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Letter ID: letters.0110

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 24
Addressee: West, Richard, 1716-1742
Addressee's age: 25[?]

Dates

Date of composition: [c. April 1741]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [Florence, Italy]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[In his letter to West from Florence of 21 April 1741 (Letter 97 [letters.0112]) Gray refers to a previous letter he had written to him, criticizing his tragedy of Pausanias. ]"
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, 181.

Holding Institution

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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. 96*, vol. i, 181