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"[Sketch of his Own Character]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.skoc
    • Uniform Title: "[Sketch of his Own Character]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Too poor for a bribe and too proud to importune,
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 77; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 236-238
    • Summary: Written in 1761, not earlier than April. First published, untitled, in a note in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 264.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0147 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [after 1771]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript in the hand of William Mason
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1111, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 122, 91; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 31
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of William Mason, here untitled, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1111.

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