grayt.ead.0001-mss.0110 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.0110#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.odfc Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes 'Twas on a lofty vase's side, 1748 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 5-6 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 78-85

Written at Cambridge between 22 February and 1 March 1747 and sent in a letter of that date to Horace Walpole . Mason is the only source for this letter, the poem sent in it has not survived. First published in Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands, 3 vols, vol. II. (London, 1748), 267-269, reprinted in 6 vols, vol. II. (London, 1758 and later edns.), 328-330.

mss.0110 poems.odfc On the Death of a favourite Cat drown'd in a China-Tub of Gold-Fishes [1757?] 2 autograph fair copy 157 mm x 102 mm MA 3389 Literary and Historical Manuscripts (LHMS) MOLI

Facsimile and description in Verlyn Klinkenborg et al., British Literary Manuscripts, Series I. From 800 to 1800 (New York, 1981), no. 98. Reserve photocopy (microfilm copy) in RP149, Manuscripts Collection, The British Library, London, UK

Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 94, 88 Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414 Catalogue of a Sotheby's sale (18 July 1967), lot 537 Catalogue of a Christie's sale (A. A. Houghton sale, 14 June 1979), lot 234, with facsimile, plate 29

Autograph fair copy, here entitled On the Death of a favourite Cat drown'd in a China-Tub of Gold-Fishes, annotated on verso in the hand of Carolina Pery "known to be Mr Gray's handwriting about the Year 1757".