grayt.ead.0001-mss.0163Thomas 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.0163#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.tapr[Tophet]Such Tophet was; so looked the grinning fiend1769 (pr. 1783)Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 75Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 100-103
Written c. 1749 under a
sketch of the Rev. Henry Etough drawn by William Mason.
First published, ll. 1-2, 5-8, as
On Mr.
E---'s being ordained and beginning "Such Tophet was--so
grum'd the bawling Fiend", in The London
Magazine 52 (June 1783), 296. The text, ll. 1-2, 5-8, was
also issued on an etching by Michael Tyson of the drawing of Tophet by
Mason, 1769.
mss.0163poems.taprInscription on a portrait[after 1771]1transcript in the hand of William Mason
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. III,
1106 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 136, 92Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 30
Transcript of ll. 1-2, 5-8, 3-4 in the hand of William Mason, here entitled
Inscription on a portrait, with ll. 3-4
annotated "addition in the first Copy", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1106.