grayt.ead.0001-mss.0210Thomas 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.0210#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.elccElegy Written in a Country
ChurchyardThe curfew tolls the knell of parting day,1751Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 37-43Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 103-141
Begun c. 1745 and completed
early in June 1750 at Stoke Poges.
Gray sent the poem
in a letter to
Horace
Walpole dated 12 June 1750.
First published, as An Elegy wrote in a Country Church
Yard and printed by Dodsley, in 1751.
mss.0210poems.elcc[untitled][between 1845 and 1856]2transcript of variant lines in the hand of John
Mitford, partial180 mm x 115 mmAdd. MS 32561, ff. 180r, 181r Manuscripts CollectionBLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 25/11/2006.
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 82
Transcript of variants of several lines, headed "Various Readings
in his Poems, from MSS.", in the hand of John Mitford, in John Mitford,
Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford.
Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", ff. 180r, 181r.