References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 10, p. 80; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 205, vol. i, pp. 433-434 (subscription required); Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), p. 414
Contents: Autograph proposal of a revision of ll. 17-18, here beginning, "With fury pale, & pale with woe," in a letter to Thomas Wharton, 21 August 1755.
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 11, p. 80; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 222, vol. ii, pp. 474-478 (subscription required)
Contents: Autograph, of ll. 23-56, here untitled but referred to as "the British Ode", in a letter to Edward Bedingfield, 27 August 1756.
Archive MS ID: mss.0016
Title: [untitled]
Date:[beginning of June 1757]
Physical Description: 4 pages, 226 mm x 187 mm; autograph draft, partial [ll. 57-144]
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 12, p. 80; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 205A, vol. i, pp. 434-437 (subscription required); Starr, "Gray's Craftsmanship" (1946), particularly pp. 424-429
Contents: Autograph draft, of ll. 57-144, here untitled, following a letter to Thomas Wharton, 21 August 1755, but according to Correspondence of Thomas Gray (1971), vol. i, p. 434 very probably written at the beginning of June 1757.
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 13, p. 80; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 238, vol. ii, pp. 501-503 (subscription required); Starr, "Gray's Craftsmanship" (1946), particularly pp. 424-429
Contents: Autograph fair copy, of ll. 111-144, untitled but headed "Antist: 3a." and beginning "Haughty Knights, & Barons bold", in a letter to William Mason, [24 or 31] May 1757.
Alternate Form:
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 14, p. 80; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), p. 29; Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), p. 208
Contents: Autograph argument of the ode, here untitled, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. II, p. 932v. First printed in Mason'sPoems (1775), p. 91.
Archive MS ID: mss.0019
Title: [untitled]
Date:[1757?]
Physical Description: [9?] pages; autograph, revised and partial [notes only]
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 15, p. 80; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 788(?), p. 20, Sotheby's sale (28 August 1851), lot 53(?), p. 45, Sotheby's sale (4 August 1854), lot 241, p. 73; W[right]., Catalogue (1851), [lot 53?,] p. 13
Contents: Autograph notes to the poem, revised, in Gray's copy of Odes by Mr. Gray (1757). The notes were first published in the poem's version in Poems (1768).
Archive MS ID: mss.0020
Title: [untitled]
Date:[1?] February 1768
Physical Description: 2 pages, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph, partial [notes only]
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 16, p. 80
Contents: Autograph notes to the poem, untitled but numbered 6. and identified on f. 3r as "6. The Bard, a Pindaric Ode", beginning "Prefix the original advertisement, The following Ode is founded &c:", in MS instructions to Dodsley for the 1768London edition, sent in a letter, [1?] February 1768.
Archive MS ID: mss.0021
Title: [untitled]
Date:1 February 1768
Physical Description: [2?] pages, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph, partial [notes only]
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 17, p. 80; Heist, Michael, "RE: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, vol.52, Robert H. Taylor Collection". E-mail to the editor, 11 January 2007
Contents: Autograph notes to the poem, headed "Prefix the origl. advertisement, The following Ode is founded, &c:", in MS instructions to Beattie for the 1768Glasgow edition, originally sent in a letter, 1 February 1768.
Separated Material: The letter in which these instructions were originally sent is now at Historic Collections, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
Archive MS ID: mss.0022
Title: "Gazetta Litteraire de l'Europe. 1764. Tom: 3. p: 259"
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 18, p. 80; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), p. 413; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 606, p. 10
Contents: Autograph transcript of a translation into French prose, headed "Gazetta Litteraire de l'Europe. 1764. Tom: 3. p: 259". The translation is unlikely to be Gray's.