grayt.ead.0001-mss.0260Thomas 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.0260#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.0260poems.elccElegy, written in a country-churchyard[undated]4transcript in an unidentified hand
Houghton b Autograph file, G: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 The Houghton Library HARVNelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger
Shakespeare Library. 9 April 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=36733>
Transcript of the poem, in an unidentified hand, from the Egerton MS 2400.
In the same file there is another transcript of the poem, from the Fraser MS, in the hand of the donor
of the two items James Freeman Clarke.