grayt.ead.0001-mss.0001Thomas Gray Manuscripts:An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive.Alexander HuberThomas Gray Archive2006Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber,
Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005-Englishgrayt.ead.0001-mss.0001#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.lt01Ad C: Favonium AristiumBarbaras aedes aditure mecum,1775LatinStarr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 138-140 (with English
prose translation)Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 306-308 (with English prose
translation)
Written at Cambridge when Gray was about to join
Richard
West (Favonius) at the
Inner Temple, where they intended to study law together.
First published, untitled but referred to in a footnote as a
Sapphic Ode, in Mason'sMemoirs (1775), section I, letter no. XIV. Mason is the only source for this
letter,
dated June 1738, in which Gray originally
sent the poem to West.
MS translation into English by Thomas
Wharton.
mss.0001poems.lt01Ad C: Favonium AristiumJune 17382autograph fair copyLatin
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 53, 90 College Library PBCC
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999),
reel one
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 1, 79Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 21Martin, Chronologie (1931), 136
Autograph fair copy, annotated "Cambridge. June,
1738" in
Gray's
Commonplace
Book, vol. I, split over two pages: p. 53 (ll. 1-40) and
p. 90 (ll. 41-52).