Shelfmark
MS 636
Author
Title
Letter from Thomas Gray in Reims to Thomas Ashton, [1739] August 24. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Reims, France, 1739 August 24.
Physical description
1 item (4 pages) : paper ; 24 x 19 cm.
Note
Title devised by cataloguer.
Note
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.
Note
Addressed to Mr Ashton at Mrs Lewes's in Hanover-Square London. With a seal in red wax.
Note
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.
Binding
Stored in a blue buckram covered solander box, with dark blue leather spine; gold stamped title on spine: 'The Quadruple Alliance'.
Subject
Genre/Form
Correspondence.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Molesworth-St Aubyn, John, 1899 - 1985 Sir, former owner.
Added entry--place
France Reims
Identifier
B49755