grayt.ead.0001-mss.0222 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.0222#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.ocmu Ode for Music "Hence, avaunt, ('tis holy ground) 1769 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 48-51 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 264-274

Written at Cambridge between 6 February and 20 April 1769 for the installation of the Duke of Grafton as Chancellor of the University, 1 July 1769. First published, anonymously, as Ode performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge... (1769), a copy of the first edition with an autograph note is at the Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA.

mss.0222 poems.ocmu An Irregular Ode for Music 1780[?] 11 transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand on Whatman paper 180 mm x 110 mm MS Add. 439, Poems section, 63-73 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 An Irregular Ode for Music (p. 63) (Ode. VII [p. 65]). The poem, which has numbered stanzas (I.-VIII.) and several annotations to the half-title page, based on information on the title page of the 1769 edition, and to ll. 39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 66, 70, and 84, 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 .