grayt.ead.0001-mss.0214 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.0214#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.sng1 Song I 'Midst beauty and pleasure's gay triumphs, to languish 1797 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 99 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 240-241

Written before October 1761 at the request of Gray's friend Henrietta Speed . Walpole transcribed and sent it in a letter to Caroline Campbell, Countess of Ailesbury, 28 November 1761. First published, beginning "With beauty, with pleasure surrounded, to languish", in Pope's Works (1797), ed. Joseph Warton, vol. II, 285n. Entitled Amatory Lines by Mitford and Northup, Bibliography (1917), 61 .

mss.0214 poems.sng1 [?] [17??] [1?] transcript in the hand of James Beattie 250 mm x 200 mm MS 30/44 (Copies of the poems of Thomas Gray) Historic Collections Special Libraries and Archives, King's College UABD Ellner, June, "Re: MS 30/44, James Beattie papers". E-mail to the editor, 20 December 2006

Transcript in the hand of James Beattie , prefaced in his hand "The following Songs being found amongst the Author's papers, with marginal corrections by his own hand which serve to authenticate them, are here inserted chiefly of that account. The former, if not the latter, has undoubtedly a degree of Lyrical merit appropriated to that species of composition."