grayt.ead.0001-mss.0117 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.0117#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.oots Ode on the Spring Lo! where the rosy-bosomed Hours, 1748 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 3-4 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 47-53

Written at Stoke Poges early in June 1742 and sent in a letter, [c. 3 June 1742], to Richard West who was then dead. The letter was returned unopened and does not survive. First published, anonymously, in Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands, 3 vols, vol. II. (London, 1748), 265-267, reprinted in 6 vols, vol. II. (London, 1758 and later edns.), 325-327.

mss.0117 poems.oots [untitled] [1742?] [2?] autograph draft written in ink and red pencil, partial [ll. 11-36, 43-50] GEN MSS 310, Box 8, Folder 340 Chauncey Brewster Tinker Manuscripts Collection Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library YALE Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 98, 88-89, on same leaf as item GrT 215, 101

Autograph draft fragment, ll. 11-20 (in ink, second half of each line only), 21-36 (in red pencil, second half of each line only), 43-50 (in red pencil, first half of each line only), annotated "This was the original manuscript copy of Gray's Ode found amongst his papers by W. Mason who gave it to me E. Harcourt ".