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Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, [23 May 1754]

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My dear Sr

I have scarce time to thank you for your kindness in immediately telling me the unexpected good news. I must trouble you to send this to the Vine, as I do not rightly know the direction.

Adieu, I am
Ever Yours
T G:
May 23. Cambridge
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Letter ID: letters.0219 (Source: TEI/XML)

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 37
Addressee: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Addressee's age: 36

Dates

Date of composition: [23 May 1754]
Date (on letter): May 23
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Address (on letter): Cambridge

Content

Language: English
Incipit: I have scarce time to thank you for your kindness in immediately telling...
Mentioned: Chute, John, 1701-1776
Vyne, The

Holding Institution

Location:
(confirmed)
GBR/1058/GRA/3/4/63, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge , Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
Availability: The original letter is extant and usually available for academic research purposes

Print Versions

  • The Correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West and Ashton (1734-1771), 2 vols. Chronologically arranged and edited with introduction, notes, and index by Paget Toynbee. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915, letter no. 189, vol. ii, 149
  • The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. Ed. by W. S. Lewis. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP; London: Oxford UP, 1937-83, vols. 13/14: Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Gray, Richard West and Thomas Ashton i, 1734-42, Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Gray ii, 1745-71, ed. by W. S. Lewis, George L. Lam and Charles H. Bennett, 1948, vol. ii, 82
  • 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. 189, vol. i, 402