References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 24, 81; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Sotheby's sale (28 August 1851), lot 53, 41, Sotheby's sale (4 August 1854), lot 230, 70; W[right]., Catalogue (1851), [lot 53,] 9; Catalogue of a Sotheby Parke-Bernet sale (6 April 1982), lot 53; Bonhams sale (10 April 2013), lot 185 (with facsimile)
Contents: An autograph of 28 lines and 6 deleted lines, revised, of Book II of De Principiis Cogitandi written in red crayon and pencil (two lines), together with a note on human desires.
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 82; Catalogue of a Sotheby's sale (10 December 1913), lot 67, facsimile in catalogue
Contents: An unlocated transcript of the "Redbreast stanza" in a copy of Designs (1753) was sold as autograph, Sotheby's (10 December 1913), lot 67 (with a facsimile), it was sought by J. Hayward in The Book Collector 5 (1956), 384-385.
References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 134-137 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 303-306 (with English prose translation)
Summary: Written probably in 1737 or 1738 when Gray was corresponding and exchanging poetry with Richard West who was then at Christ Church, Oxford. First published, untitled, in Tovey (ed.), Gray and his Friends (1890), 296-298.
Summary: Begun not earlier than September 1751 and completed by December 1754 when Gray sent the poem in a letter to Thomas Wharton, dated 26 December 1754. First published, as "Ode." in Odes by Mr. Gray (1757), 5.
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 90; Catalogue of a Sotheby's sale (10 December 1913), lot 67, facsimile in catalogue; Toynbee, "Alleged Holograph of Gray" (1928), 834
Contents: An unlocated transcript in a copy of Designs (1753) was sold as autograph, Sotheby's (10 December 1913), lot 67 (with a facsimile).