grayt.ead.0001-mss.0238 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.0238#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.0238 poems.odfc On a favourite Cat called Selima that fell into a China Cistern that had Gold Fish in it, and was Drown'd [before 1758?] 2 transcript in the hand of Mary Capell, "bound in contemporary calf, but with the spine broken, gatherings loose, worn, and with light spotting or dust-staining" MS Lt 119, ff. 111-112 (rectos only) Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse, Special Collections LELI Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=5594>

Transcript in the hand of Mary Capell, beginning "T'was on a lofty Vase's side", in an autograph manuscript volume "signed by 'Mary Capell' on the first folio. Comprises an anthology of over eighty manuscript poems, of which some are dated from 1740 to 1751, with a six-page index at the end."