grayt.ead.0001-mss.0160Thomas 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.0160#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.sorwSonnet [on the Death of Mr Richard
West]In vain to me the smiling mornings shine,1775Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 92Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 64-68
Composed at Stoke Poges shortly after
the death of Richard West, Gray's closest friend, on
1 June 1742.
First published, entitled
Sonnet On the
Death of Mr. Richard West, in Mason'sPoems (1775), 60.
mss.0160poems.sorwSonnetAugust 17421autograph fair copy
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 284 College Library PBCC
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999),
reel one, facsimile in Gosse
(ed.), Works (1884), vol. iv,
frontispiece
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 133, 92Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
Autograph fair copy, here entitled
Sonnet and annotated "at Stoke, Aug:
1742", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol I, 284. It is listed as "West
(Richard) Sonnet, on him" in Gray's index to vol II.