grayt.ead.0001-mss.0059 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.0059#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.epww [Epitaph on Sir William Williams] Here, foremost in the dangerous paths of fame, 1775 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 104-105 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 238-240

Written between May and August 1761 at the request of one of the executors of Sir William Williams , a politician and soldier Gray briefly met early in October 1760, who died 27 April 1761 on an expedition against Belle Ile. First published, as Epitaph II. On Sir William Williams, in Mason's Poems (1775), 62.

mss.0059 poems.epww [untitled] August 1761 [1?] autograph Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature NYPL Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 45, 83 Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 339, vol. ii, 745-746 (subscription required)

Autograph, here untitled, in a letter to William Mason , August 1761.