grayt.ead.0001-mss.0094Thomas 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.0094#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.lods[Lines on Dr Robert Smith]Do you ask why old Focus Silvanus defies,1902Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 74Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 280
Written between 1742 and 1768, prompted
presumably by a proposal by Dr Smith to cut down the Chestnut Walk at Trinity
College, Cambridge.
First published, entitled
Lines, in
Gosse (ed.), Works, rev. ed. (1902), vol. i, 142.
mss.0094poems.lods[untitled][between 1742 and
1768][1?]transcript[?][privately owned]Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 79, 86
A manuscript, here untitled, owned (1902) by Prof. Adam Sedgewick.