grayt.ead.0001-mss.0015 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.0015#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.bapo The Bard. A Pindaric Ode 'Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! 1757 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 18-24 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 177-200

Begun late in 1754 and initially abandoned by August 1755, then taken up again, completed and revised, between May and August 1757 . Gray sent the earlier parts of the poem in letters to Thomas Wharton , dated 6 August 1755 (ll. 1-56), and to Richard Stonhewer , dated 21 August 1755 (ll. 63-100), the latter part (ll. 111-144) to William Mason , dated [24 or 31] May 1757 . First published, as Ode II. in Odes by Mr. Gray (1757), 12-21.

 mss.0015 poems.bapo [untitled] 27 August 1756 1 autograph, partial [ll. 23-56] HM 21912 Department of Manuscripts HULI Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 11, 80 Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 222, vol. ii, 474-478 (subscription required)

Autograph, of ll. 23-56, here untitled but referred to as "the British Ode", in a letter to Edward Bedingfield , 27 August 1756.