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Thomas Gray to Richard Stonhewer, [c. 23 September 1766]

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Letter ID: letters.0482

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 49
Addressee: Stonhewer, Richard, 1728-1809
Addressee's age: 38[?]

Dates

Date of composition: [c. 23 September 1766]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [Cambridge, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[In his letter to Mason of 5 Oct. 1766 (Letter 427 [letters.0483]) Gray refers to a letter which he wrote to Stonhewer on receiving from him the news of Dr. John Brown's suicide. As Gray heard from Stonhewer on 23 Sept., Gray's letter must have been written about 23 Sept. Both letters are missing, as well as others mentioned in the same letter to Mason. Stonhewer had written a second letter on 27 Sept. Gray had also received a letter from Walpole in reply to his letter of 24 Sept. (Letter 426 [letters.0481]).]"
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. iii, 937-938.

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. 426*, vol. iii, 937-938