grayt.ead.0001-mss.0240 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.0240#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.elcc Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, 1751 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 37-43 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 103-141

Begun c. 1745 and completed early in June 1750 at Stoke Poges . Gray sent the poem in a letter to Horace Walpole dated 12 June 1750. First published, as An Elegy wrote in a Country Church Yard and printed by Dodsley , in 1751.

mss.0240 poems.elcc An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard [1750s?] 3 transcript in an unidentified hand, partial [ll. 1-92], in a manuscript volume "bound in dark brown leather which is gilt embossed with decorations and gilt tooling. There is marbling on both inside covers and endpapers. The back board is detached" MS Lt 109, ff. 67r-68r 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=4659>

Transcript of ll. 1-92 in an unidentified hand, beginning "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day", in a Commonplace-book owned by the Lewis family. It is "in two hands, containing prose and poetry on diverse topics (written partly in the first half of the eighteenth century, partly in the mid eighteenth century); the signatures of Kath Lewis and Johana Lewis are visible on the flyleaf".