grayt.ead.0001-mss.0165 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.0165#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.tapr [Tophet] Such Tophet was; so looked the grinning fiend 1769 (pr. 1783) Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 75 Lonsdale (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.0165 poems.tapr [untitled] 1769 1 transcript in the hand of Michael Tyson c. 245 mm x 180 mm Add. MS 5817, f. 191r Manuscripts Collection BLUK

MS catalogued by Alexander Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 04/11/2006.

 Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 138, 92 Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415

Copy of Tyson 's etching with the text, annotated "Gray". Above the sketch is an annotation by William Cole "Mr. Etough of Therfeild in Hartfordshire, obiit 1757", and on verso "Given to me by Mr. Tyson in Nov: 1769. Wm. Cole". Bound in a volume entitled History of King's College Cambridge, vol. IV, XVI, bequeathed by Rev. W. Cole.