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".