Charles Victor de Bonstetten to Thomas Gray, [December 1770]

Letter ID: letters.0584

Writer: Bonstetten, Charles Victor de, 1745-1832

Writer's age: 25

Addressee: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771

Addressee's age: 54

Date of composition: [December 1770]

Calendar: Gregorian

Place of composition: [Bern, Switzerland]

Language: [unknown]

Incipit: [not extant]

Contents: "[In Gray's letters to Bonstetten and to Norton Nicholls in 1770 and 1771 he mentions many letters, which he had received from Bonstetten after he left England. None of these letters is extant. The letters, with their approximate dates and with references to the letters of Gray in which they are mentioned are as follows: 31 Mar. 1770 [letters.0578], from Abbeville (Letter 514 [letters.0588]); 5 Apr. [letters.0579], from Paris (Letter 517 [letters.0595]); 30 Apr. [letters.0580], from Paris (Letter 524 [letters.0602]); 16 May [letters.0581], from Paris (Letters 524 [letters.0602], 525 [letters.0603]); 5 Sept. [letters.0582], from Paris (Letter 533 [letters.0612]); Nov. [letters.0583], from Aubonne (Letter 536 [letters.0615]); 'several letters from Berne' of Dec. 1770 [letters.0584] and Jan. 1771 [letters.0585] (Letter 540 [letters.0619]); 15 Feb. 1771 [letters.0586], from Berne (Letter 543 [letters.0623]); 22 Apr. [letters.0587], from Berne (Letter 550 [letters.0633]).]"
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, 1114-1115.

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