grayt.ead.0001-mss.0100 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.0100#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.ocmu Ode for Music "Hence, avaunt, ('tis holy ground) 1769 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 48-51 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 264-274

Written at Cambridge between 6 February and 20 April 1769 for the installation of the Duke of Grafton as Chancellor of the University, 1 July 1769. First published, anonymously, as Ode performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge... (1769), a copy of the first edition with an autograph note is at the Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA.

mss.0100 poems.ocmu Ode [1769?] 4 autograph fair copy Modern (Unbound) Manuscripts, Box 7a, Folder 18 Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature PRIN Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 86, 87 Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 603, 9 Catalogue of a Sotheby's sale (30 June 1984), lot 483, facsimile in catalogue Rich, Margaret Sherry, "Please forward". E-mail to Mark Farrell, forwarded to the editor, 26 June 2006 Farrell, Mark, "Re: [Fwd: Please forward]". E-mail to the editor, 28 June 2006

Autograph fair copy, here entitled Ode. A hand-written, nineteenth-century saleroom ticket, which refers to the manuscript as "Lot 603", is stuck onto the last page with sealing wax.