grayt.ead.0001-mss.0147Thomas 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.0147#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.skoc[Sketch of his Own Character]Too poor for a bribe and too proud to importune,1775Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 77Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 236-238
Written in 1761, not earlier than April.
First published, untitled, in a note in Mason's
Memoirs (1775), 264.
mss.0147poems.skoc[untitled][after 1771]1transcript in the hand of William Mason
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. III,
1111 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 122, 91Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 31
Transcript in the hand of William Mason, here untitled, in
Gray's