grayt.ead.0001-mss.0211Thomas 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.0211#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.elccElegy Written in a Country
ChurchyardThe curfew tolls the knell of parting day,1751Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 37-43Lonsdale (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.0211poems.elccThe Elegy[between 1845 and 1856]2transcript of variant lines in the hand of John
Mitford, partial and crossed out180 mm x 110 mmAdd. MS 32562, ff. 32r, 33r Manuscripts CollectionBLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 25/11/2006.
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 82
Transcript of variants of several lines, entitled
The Elegy. var. (crossed out),
in the hand of John Mitford, in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. IV, ff. 32r, 33r.