grayt.ead.0001-mss.0250 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.0250#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.oots Ode on the Spring Lo! where the rosy-bosomed Hours, 1748 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 3-4 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 47-53

Written at Stoke Poges early in June 1742 and sent in a letter, [c. 3 June 1742], to Richard West who was then dead. The letter was returned unopened and does not survive. First published, anonymously, in Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands, 3 vols, vol. II. (London, 1748), 265-267, reprinted in 6 vols, vol. II. (London, 1758 and later edns.), 325-327.

mss.0250 poems.oots [untitled] [before 1860] 4 transcript (lines 1-7, 11-50) in the hand of George Hamilton-Gordon c. 190 mm x 115 mm Add. MS 43347, ff. 51-52 Manuscripts Collection BLUK

MS catalogued by Alexander Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 07/07/2010.

 Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 9 April 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=107683>

Transcript (lines 1-7, 11-50) in the hand of George Gordon, afterwards (1818) Hamilton-Gordon , 4th Earl of Aberdeen, K.G., K.T., Prime Minister (b. 1784, d. 1860) in his Aberdeen Papers, Vol. CCCIX (ff. 210) Miscellaneous papers, section 2 "Miscellaneous English occasional verse, centring chiefly round George, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, and the circle of visitors he met at Bentley Priory, Stanmore, the home of his father-in-law, John James Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn, which became his own residence for many years", item q "Poem, beg. 'Lo! Where the rosy-bosom'd hours', ff. 51-52b".