MS 636
Letter from Thomas Gray in Reims to Thomas Ashton, [1739] August 24. manuscript.
Reims, France, 1739 August 24.
1 item (4 pages) : paper ; 24 x 19 cm.
Title devised by cataloguer.
Place and date of production supplied in letter, apart from the year, which is inferred from the dates of Gray and Walpole's continental tour.
Addressed to Mr Ashton at Mrs Lewes's in Hanover-Square London. With a seal in red wax.
Enclosed is a letter from W.S. Lewis as editor of the Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, dated 14 September 1960, addressed to Sir John Molesworth-St Aubyn as owner of this letter and asking for permission to copy it.
Stored in a blue buckram covered solander box, with dark blue leather spine; gold stamped title on spine: 'The Quadruple Alliance'.
Molesworth-St Aubyn, John, 1899 - 1985 Sir, former owner.
France Reims
B49755