"[Gratia magna]"

• Archive Work ID: poems.lt11
• Uniform Title: "[Gratia magna]" [e-text]
• First Line: Gratia magna tuae fraudi quod Pectore, Nice
• Language: Latin
• First Published: 1890
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 134-137 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 303-306 (with English prose translation)
• Summary: Written probably in 1737 or 1738 when Gray was corresponding and exchanging poetry with Richard West who was then at Christ Church, Oxford. First published, untitled, in Tovey (ed.), Gray and his Friends (1890), 296-298.

2 Manuscripts:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0073 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: [1738?]
  • Physical Description: [?] pages; autograph
  • Language: Latin
  • Location: [unlocated]
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 59, 84; Starr/Hendrickson, "Supplementary Note on Thomas Gray's 'Gratia Magna'" (1967), 412
  • Contents: An unlocated autograph, formerly owned (1967) by collector Gordon N. Ray.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0074 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
  • Physical Description: 3 pages, 180 mm x 115 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford
  • Language: Latin
  • Location: Add. MS 32561, ff. 83-85, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 60, 84
  • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Mitford of an unfinished draft, untitled but headed "MS Poem", in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", ff. 83-85.