"[Invitation to Mason]"

• Archive Work ID: poems.inma
• Uniform Title: "[Invitation to Mason]" [e-text]
• First Line: Prim Hurd attends your call and Palgrave proud,
• Language: English
• First Published: 1853
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 82; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 257-258
• Summary: Written at Cambridge not later than 8 January 1768, when Gray sent it in a letter to William Mason. First published, untitled and beginning "Weddell attends your call...", in Mitford (ed.), Correspondence of Gray and Mason (1853), 412.

1 Manuscript:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0090 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: 8 January 1768
  • Physical Description: [1?] page; autograph
  • Language: English
  • Location: Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 75, 86; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 461, vol. iii, 992-995 (subscription required)
  • Contents: Autograph, here untitled, in a letter to William Mason, 8 January 1768.