grayt.ead.0001-mss.0120Thomas 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.0120#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.ootsOde on the SpringLo! where the rosy-bosomed Hours,1748Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 3-4Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 47-53
Written at Stoke Pogesearly in June 1742 and sent in a
letter,
[c. 3 June 1742], to
Richard
West who was then dead. The letter was returned
unopened and does not survive.
First published, anonymously, in Dodsley's
Collection of
Poems by Several Hands, 3 vols, vol. II. (London, 1748), 265-267,
reprinted in 6 vols, vol. II. (London, 1758
and later edns.),
325-327.
mss.0120poems.oots[untitled][1?] February 17681autograph, partial [notes only]324 mm x 200 mmAdd. MS 38511, f. 3r Manuscripts Collection BLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 04/11/2006.
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 101, 89Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
Autograph notes to the poem, untitled but numbered 1. and identified
on f. 3r as "1. Ode. (Lo, where the rosy-bosom'd &c:)" in
MS instructions to Dodsley for the 1768London edition, sent in a letter, [1?] February
1768.
The notes were first published in the poem's version in Poems (1768).