grayt.ead.0001-mss.0054 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.0054#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.epmc [Epitaph on Mrs Clerke] Lo! where this silent marble weeps, 1758 (pr. 1759) Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 52 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 207-209

Written not long before 31 January 1758 presumably at the request of John Clerke to commemorate his wife Jane who died 27 April 1757 aged 31. Inscribed on a mural tablet in St George's parish church, Beckenham, Kent, 1758. First published, as "An Epitaph copied from a Tomb-stone in a Country Church Yard", in The Gentleman's Magazine, October 1759.

mss.0054 poems.epmc [untitled] [1759?] [1?] transcript possibly in the hand of Richard Hurd English, Latin Hurd Library HARC Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 42, 83 Pearce, E. H. and Leonard Whibley (eds.), The Correspondence of Richard Hurd and William Mason (Cambridge, 1932), 168

Transcript, possibly in the hand of Richard Hurd , here untitled and headed "By Mr. Gray", together with a Latin version, in the papers of Richard Hurd.