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Thomas Gray to Richard Stonhewer, [c. 13 April 1771]

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Letter ID: letters.0630

Correspondents

Writer: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Writer's age: 54
Addressee: Stonhewer, Richard, 1728-1809
Addressee's age: 43[?]

Dates

Date of composition: [c. 13 April 1771]
Calendar: Gregorian

Places

Place of composition: [Cambridge, United Kingdom]

Content

Language: [unknown]
Incipit: [not extant]
Contents: "[In his letter to Gray of 15 Apr. 1771 (Letter 548 [letters.0631]) Mason refers to a letter from Gray which Stonhewer, with whom he was then staying in Curzon Street, had just 'this post recd', and to a previous letter to him in which Gray had 'tifft at him'. These letters are not 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. iii, 1179.

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. 547*, vol. iii, 1179