grayt.ead.0001-mss.0213 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.0213#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.tra6 [Translation from Statius, <emph render="italic">Thebaid</emph> VI 646-88, 704-24] Then thus the king: 'Whoe'er the quoit can wield, 1853 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 54-55 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 17-19

Written before the end of May 1736 when Gray was learning Italian, and sent in two letters, dated [8 May 1736] (ll. 646-88) and [before 24 May 1736] (ll. 704-24), to Richard West . Gray's translation of ll. 689-703 has not survived. Translation of ll. 646-88 (59 lines) first published, untitled, in Mitford (ed.), Correspondence of Gray and Mason (1853), letter I, 2-4 , and of ll. 704-24 (27 lines) first published in Mason's Memoirs (1775), section I, 9-10.

mss.0213 poems.tra6 [untitled] [between 1845 and 1856] 3 transcript in the hand of John Mitford , partial [ll. 32-52, 1-31, 53-59] 180 mm x 115 mm Add. MS 32561, ff. 192r, 193r, 194r Manuscripts Collection BLUK

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

 Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 145, 93

Transcript, here untitled, of ll. 32-52, 1-31, 53-59, in the hand of John Mitford , in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", ff. 192r, 193r, 194r.