grayt.ead.0001-mss.0083Thomas Gray Manuscripts:An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive.Alexander HuberThomas Gray Archive2006Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber,
Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005-Englishgrayt.ead.0001-mss.0083#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.impr[Impromptus]Here lies Mrs Keene the Bishop of Chester, [etc.]
1828 and 1884Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 81-82Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 278-279
These epigrams, subsumed under the work title
[Impromptus], were composed possibly at a single
point in time between 1753 and 1770.
First published in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. i, 140-141,
except One day the Bishop having
offered..., first published in Joseph Cradock, Literary and Miscellaneous Memoirs (London,
1828), iv 224.
mss.0083poems.imprExtempore by Mr.
Gr[ay]. on Dr. K[eene]. B[ishop]. of
C[hester].[between 1753 and 1770]1transcript in the hand of Thomas Wharton205 mm x 163 mmMS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), f. 233r Manuscripts Collection BLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 25/11/2006.