grayt.ead.0001-mss.0034Thomas 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.0034#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.lt06De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber
Secundus. Hactenus haud segnis Naturae arcana retexi1775LatinStarr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 168-170 (with English
prose translation)Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 328, 332 (with English
prose translation)
Begun at Stoke Poges in
June 1742 and sent
in a letter, dated [8 February 1747], to
Horace Walpole.
First published, as "Liber Quartus", in Mason's
Memoirs (1775), 168-169.
mss.0034poems.lt06[untitled]1747[1?]autograph fair copyLatin GBR/1058/GRA/3/4/42 College Library PBCC
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999),
reel two
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 26, 81Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 33Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 131,
vol. i, 264-268 (subscription required)Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415
Autograph fair copy, here untitled and referred to as
"the Beginning of the fourth Book" of
"a large Design", in a letter to
Horace
Walpole, [8 February
1747].