grayt.ead.0001-mss.0217 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.0217#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.odfc Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes 'Twas on a lofty vase's side, 1748 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 5-6 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 78-85

Written at Cambridge between 22 February and 1 March 1747 and sent in a letter of that date to Horace Walpole . Mason is the only source for this letter, the poem sent in it has not survived. First published in Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands, 3 vols, vol. II. (London, 1748), 267-269, reprinted in 6 vols, vol. II. (London, 1758 and later edns.), 328-330.

mss.0217 poems.odfc Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes 1780[?] 6 transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand on Whatman paper 180 mm x 110 mm MS Add. 439, Poems section, 9-14 The Archives YMAR

MS catalogued by Alexander Huber in The Archives, York Minster Library & Archives, on 27/02/2007.

Transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand, entitled Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes (p. 9) (Ode. II. [p. 11]). The poem is part of a section called Poems, which is separately paginated and has its own table of contents (p. 129), in a volume entitled Gray's Poems. The book carries the bookplate of Gray's friend and biographer William Mason .