grayt.ead.0001-mss.0212Thomas 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.0212#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.0212poems.elcc[untitled][after 1775]2transcript in an unidentified hand, partial [8
lines]11631.g.33(2), 10-11Rare Books CollectionBLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 25/11/2006.
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 82
Transcript in an unidentified hand of 8 lines (one stanza after l.
100 and the "Redbreast stanza" after l. 116) with the former only in
the
Eton MS, with notes, in a copy
of the Elegy, 8th edition (London, 1753),
10-11, bound in a volume entitled Poetical
Tracts.