grayt.ead.0001-mss.0174 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.0174#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.tra6 [Translation from Statius, <emph render="italic">Thebaid</emph> VI 646-88, 704-24] Then thus the king: 'Whoe'er the quoit can wield, 1853 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 54-55 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 17-19

Written before the end of May 1736 when Gray was learning Italian, and sent in two letters, dated [8 May 1736] (ll. 646-88) and [before 24 May 1736] (ll. 704-24), to Richard West . Gray's translation of ll. 689-703 has not survived. Translation of ll. 646-88 (59 lines) first published, untitled, in Mitford (ed.), Correspondence of Gray and Mason (1853), letter I, 2-4 , and of ll. 704-24 (27 lines) first published in Mason's Memoirs (1775), section I, 9-10.

mss.0174 poems.tra6 E lib: 6to Thebaidos 8 May [1736] [?] autograph fair copy Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature NYPL Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 145, 93 Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 22, vol. i, 38-41 (subscription required) Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 614(?), 10, Sotheby's sale (4 August 1854), lot 244, 74

Autograph fair copy of a translation of Thebaid, VI, 646-88, headed E lib: 6to Thebaidos, in a letter to Richard West , 8 May [1736].