grayt.ead.0001-mss.0032Thomas Gray Manuscripts:An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive.Alexander HuberThomas Gray Archive2006Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber,
Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005-Englishgrayt.ead.0001-mss.0032#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.lt06De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber
Secundus. Hactenus haud segnis Naturae arcana retexi1775LatinStarr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 168-170 (with English
prose translation)Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 328, 332 (with English
prose translation)
Begun at Stoke Poges in
June 1742 and sent
in a letter, dated [8 February 1747], to
Horace Walpole.
First published, as "Liber Quartus", in Mason's
Memoirs (1775), 168-169.
mss.0032poems.lt06[untitled][1747?]1autograph written in red crayon and pencil, revised,
partial [34 lines], quartoLatinSmith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 24, 81Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Sotheby's sale (28 August 1851),
lot 53, 41, Sotheby's
sale (4 August 1854), lot 230, 70W[right]., Catalogue (1851), [lot 53,] 9Catalogue of a Sotheby
Parke-Bernet sale (6 April 1982), lot 53Bonhams sale (10 April 2013),
lot 185 (with facsimile)
An autograph of 28 lines and 6 deleted lines, revised, of Book II of
De Principiis Cogitandi
written in red crayon and pencil (two lines), together with a note
on human desires.