[The Alliance of Education and Government. A Fragment]

grayt.ead.0001-mss.0010 Thomas Gray Manuscripts: An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive. Alexander Huber Thomas Gray Archive 2006 Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber, Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005- English grayt.ead.0001-mss.0010#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.aleg [The Alliance of Education and Government. A Fragment] As sickly plants betray a niggard earth, 1775 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 93-97 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 85-100

Written in 1748-49 and probably abandoned by March 1749. Gray sent ll. 1-57 of the fragment in a letter, dated 19 August 1748, to Thomas Wharton . First published, entitled Essay I, in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 193-200.

mss.0010 poems.aleg [untitled] 19 August [1748] 2 autograph fair copy, partial [ll. 1-57] and revised 238 mm x 180 mm MS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), ff. 29v-30r Manuscripts Collection BLUK

MS catalogued by Alexander Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 25/11/2006.

Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 7, 79 Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 146, vol. i, 308-312 (subscription required) Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414

Autograph fair copy, revised, of ll. 1-57, here untitled, followed by MS 0011, in a letter to Thomas Wharton , 19 August [1748]. Beneath the poem is written "I desire your Judgement upon so far, before I proceed any farther", and "Pray shew it to no one (as it is a Fragment) except it be St:r who has seen most of it already, I think".