grayt.ead.0001-mss.0209Thomas 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.0209#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.inma[Invitation to Mason]Prim Hurd attends your call and Palgrave proud,1853Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 82Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 257-258
Written at Cambridgenot later than 8
January 1768, when Gray sent it in a letter to William
Mason.
First published, untitled and beginning "Weddell attends your
call...", in Mitford (ed.), Correspondence of Gray and Mason
(1853), 412.
mss.0209poems.inmaLines[between 1845 and 1856]1transcript in the hand of
John
Mitford, crossed out
180 mm x 110 mmAdd. MS 32562, f. 31r Manuscripts Collection BLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 07/10/2006.
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 86
Transcript in the hand of John
Mitford (crossed out), here entitled
Lines, in John Mitford,
Note-Books, vol. IV, f. 31r.