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"[Epitaph on a Child]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.epld
    • Uniform Title: "[Epitaph on a Child]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1884
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 104; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 209-210
    • Summary: Written in mid-June 1758 at the request of Thomas Wharton to commemorate his eldest son Robin who died in April 1758. First published in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. I, 126, from the transcript made by Alexander Dyce.

    5 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0049 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [1758?]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: English
      • Location: Bound PML 16518 (extra-illustrated copy of Gray's Odes), 22, Literary and Historical Manuscripts (LHMS), Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA <http://www.themorgan.org/collection>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 37, 82; Jones, Thomas Gray, Scholar (1937), "Register of Gray Autograph Manuscripts", VI. 20(a) "epitaph on a child", 181; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 624(?), 11, Sotheby's sale (12 August 1847), lot 89, 27, Sotheby's sale (28 August 1851), lot 53(?), 41, Sotheby's sale (4 August 1854), lot 228(?), 69; W[right]., Catalogue (1851), [lot 53?,] 9; Nelson, Christine, "extra-illustrated copy of Gray's Odes". E-mail to the editor, 14 November 2006
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled but endorsed 'Epitaph on a Child' in an unidentified hand, bound into Gray's copy of Odes (1757).

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0050 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Epitaph on a Child"
      • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
      • Physical Description: 1 page, 180 mm x 115 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford
      • Language: English
      • Location: Add. MS 32561, f. 74r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 38, 82; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Mitford, apparently from a Gray autograph and hence annotated "N.B. in Grays writing.", in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", f. 74r.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0051 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Epitaph on a Child"
      • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
      • Physical Description: 1 page, 180 mm x 115 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford
      • Language: English
      • Location: Add. MS 32561, f. 182r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 39, 82
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Mitford, here beginning "Here free from Pain...", in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", f. 182r.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0048 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Epitaph on a Child"
      • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
      • Physical Description: 1 page, 180 mm x 110 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford, crossed out
      • Language: English
      • Location: Add. MS 32562, f. 28r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 82; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Mitford, here beginning "Here free from Pain..." (crossed out), in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. IV, f. 28r.


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