grayt.ead.0001-mss.0077 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.0077#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.imp2 [Imitated] From Propertius. Lib: 2: Eleg: 1. You ask why thus my loves I still rehearse, 1814 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 64-67 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 44-47

Probably written in April of 1742 and sent in a letter to Richard West , [23 April 1742]. First published, except ll. 1-30, in Mathias (ed.), Works (1814), vol. II, 87-89 , published in full in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. i, 153.

mss.0077 poems.imp2 Lib: 2: Eleg: 1: To Mecaenas [23 April 1742] [?] autograph fair copy Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature NYPL Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 63, 85 Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 105, vol. i, 196-199 (subscription required) Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 613, 10, Sotheby's sale (12 August 1847), lot 87(?), 26, Sotheby's sale (4 August 1854), lot 245, 74

Autograph fair copy, headed Lib: 2: Eleg: 1: To Mecaenas, sent in a letter to Richard West , [23 April 1742].