grayt.ead.0001-mss.0202 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.0202#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.sorw Sonnet [on the Death of Mr Richard West] In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, 1775 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 92 Lonsdale (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's Poems (1775), 60.

mss.0202 poems.sorw Sonnet, On the Death of Richard West Esq. [between 1771 and 1820] 1 transcript in an unidentified hand Ryl. English Ms 656/74 Thrale Piozzi Collection UMAN Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415 Young, Anne, "Re: English MS 656/74". Two e-mails to the editor, 16 and 18 August 2006

Transcript in an unidentified hand, probably addressed to Hester Lynch Thrale , in a section of the Thrale Piozzi Collection described as "Poems in various hands, some initialled or signed, other copied... there are 135 items, dated between c. 1735 and 1820." Beneath the sonnet is written "This is the Sonnet I was mentioning to you of Grays which you did not recollect...".

Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS