"[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.

3 Manuscripts:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0091 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: "Lines"
  • 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. 184r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 76, 86; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
  • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Mitford, here entitled "Lines", in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", f. 184r.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0209 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: "Lines"
  • 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. 31r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 86
  • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Mitford (crossed out), here entitled "Lines", in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. IV, f. 31r.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0089 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, 180 mm x 110 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford, partial [ll. 2, 8] and crossed out
  • Language: English
  • Location: Add. MS 32562, f. 119, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 86
  • Contents: Transcript of ll. 2 and 8 (crossed out) in the hand of John Mitford, in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. IV, f. 119.