grayt.ead.0001-mss.0118 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.0118#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.0118 poems.oots Noon-Tide, An Ode beginning of June 1742 2 autograph fair copy GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 275, 278 College Library PBCC

Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one

Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 99, 89 Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 24

Autograph fair copy, here entitled Noon-Tide, An Ode, and beginning "Lo, where the rosie-bosom'd Hours", annotated "at Stoke, the beginning of June, 1742. sent to Fav: not knowing he was then Dead", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 275 and continued on p. 278.

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