grayt.ead.0001-mss.0061 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.0061#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.0061 poems.epww Epitaph on Sir W. Williams. [between 1845 and 1856] 1 transcript in the hand of John Mitford , partial [ll. 1-2, 5-6] 180 mm x 115 mm Add. MS 32561, f. 181r Manuscripts Collection BLUK

MS catalogued by Alexander Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 07/10/2006.

 Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 47, 83 Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414

Transcript of ll. 1-2 and 5-6 in the hand of John Mitford , here entitled Epitaph on Sir W. Williams. and annotated "Mr. Montague asked him to write the Epitaph on Sir W. Williams and he could not refuse. He did not know much of him...", in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", f. 181r.