grayt.ead.0001-mss.0079 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.0079#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.0079 poems.imp2 To Mecaenas [between 1845 and 1856] 2 transcript in the hand of John Mitford , partial [ll. 1-30] 180 mm x 115 mm Add. MS 32561, ff. 77-78 Manuscripts Collection BLUK

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

 Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 65, 85

Transcript of ll. 1-30, here entitled To Mecaenas, in the hand of John Mitford , headed "Propertii Eleg. 1. Lib. 2" and annotated "The first 30 Lines...are here supplied from Grays MS", in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", ff. 77-78.