grayt.ead.0001-mss.0046Thomas 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.0046#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.elccElegy Written in a Country
ChurchyardThe curfew tolls the knell of parting day,1751Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 37-43Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 103-141
Begun c. 1745 and completed
early in June 1750 at Stoke Poges.
Gray sent the poem
in a letter to
Horace
Walpole dated 12 June 1750.
First published, as An Elegy wrote in a Country Church
Yard and printed by Dodsley, in 1751.
mss.0046poems.elcc[untitled][1?] February 17681autograph, partial [notes only]324 mm x 200 mmAdd. MS 38511, f. 7r Manuscripts Collection BLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 04/11/2006.
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 35,
82
Autograph notes to the poem, untitled but numbered 10. and identified
on f. 3r as "10. Elegy, written in a country-churchyard" in MS
instructions to Dodsley for the 1768London edition, sent in a letter, [1?] February
1768. The notes were first published in the poem's version
in Poems (1768).