grayt.ead.0001-mss.0210 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.0210#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.elcc Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, 1751 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 37-43 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 103-141

Begun c. 1745 and completed early in June 1750 at Stoke Poges . Gray sent the poem in a letter to Horace Walpole dated 12 June 1750. First published, as An Elegy wrote in a Country Church Yard and printed by Dodsley , in 1751.

mss.0210 poems.elcc [untitled] [between 1845 and 1856] 2 transcript of variant lines in the hand of John Mitford , partial 180 mm x 115 mm Add. MS 32561, ff. 180r, 181r Manuscripts Collection BLUK

MS catalogued by Alexander Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 25/11/2006.

 Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 82

Transcript of variants of several lines, headed "Various Readings in his Poems, from MSS.", in the hand of John Mitford, in John Mitford , Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", ff. 180r, 181r.

MS 0210 apparently transcribed from MS 0043.