grayt.ead.0001-mss.0091Thomas 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.0091#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.inma[Invitation to Mason]Prim Hurd attends your call and Palgrave proud,1853Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 82Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 257-258
Written at Cambridgenot later than 8
January 1768, when Gray sent it in a letter to William
Mason.
First published, untitled and beginning "Weddell attends your
call...", in Mitford (ed.), Correspondence of Gray and Mason
(1853), 412.
mss.0091poems.inmaLines[between 1845 and 1856]1transcript in the hand of
John
Mitford180 mm x 115 mmAdd. MS 32561, f. 184r
Manuscripts Collection BLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 07/10/2006.
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 76, 86Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
Transcript in the hand of John
Mitford, here entitled
Lines, in
John Mitford, Note-Books,
vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books",
f. 184r.