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"[Epitaph on a Child]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.epld
    • Uniform Title: "[Epitaph on a Child]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1884
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 104; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 209-210
    • Summary: Written in mid-June 1758 at the request of Thomas Wharton to commemorate his eldest son Robin who died in April 1758. First published in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. I, 126, from the transcript made by Alexander Dyce.

    4 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0050 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Epitaph on a Child"
      • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
      • Physical Description: 1 page, 180 mm x 115 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford
      • Language: English
      • Location: Add. MS 32561, f. 74r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 38, 82; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Mitford, apparently from a Gray autograph and hence annotated "N.B. in Grays writing.", in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", f. 74r.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0051 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Epitaph on a Child"
      • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
      • Physical Description: 1 page, 180 mm x 115 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford
      • Language: English
      • Location: Add. MS 32561, f. 182r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 39, 82
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Mitford, here beginning "Here free from Pain...", in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", f. 182r.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0048 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Epitaph on a Child"
      • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
      • Physical Description: 1 page, 180 mm x 110 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford, crossed out
      • Language: English
      • Location: Add. MS 32562, f. 28r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 82; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Mitford, here beginning "Here free from Pain..." (crossed out), in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. IV, f. 28r.


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