[Impromptus]

• Archive Work ID: poems.impr
• Uniform Title: [Impromptus] [e-text]
• First Line: Here lies Mrs Keene the Bishop of Chester, [etc.]
• Language: English
• First Published: 1828 and 1884
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 81-82; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 278-279
• Summary: These epigrams, subsumed under the work title [Impromptus], were composed possibly at a single point in time between 1753 and 1770. First published in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. i, 140-141, except "One day the Bishop having offered...", first published in Joseph Cradock, Literary and Miscellaneous Memoirs (London, 1828), iv 224.

5 Manuscripts:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0081 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: "And this upon his Lady --"
  • Date: [between 1753 and 1770]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, 205 mm x 163 mm; transcript in the hand of Thomas Wharton
  • Language: English
  • Location: MS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), f. 233r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 67, 85
  • Contents: Transcript, in the hand of Thomas Wharton, here beginning "Here lies M^rs. Keene [...] Bishop of Chester".
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0082 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: "A Couplet by M^r. Gray"
  • Date: [between 1753 and 1770]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, 99 mm x 200 mm; transcript in the hand of Thomas Wharton
  • Language: English
  • Location: MS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), f. 234r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 68, 85
  • Contents: Transcript in the hand of Thomas Wharton.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0083 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: "Extempore by M^r. Gr[ay]. on D^r. K[eene]. B[ishop]. of C[hester]."
  • Date: [between 1753 and 1770]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, 205 mm x 163 mm; transcript in the hand of Thomas Wharton
  • Language: English
  • Location: MS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), f. 233r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 69, 85
  • Contents: Transcript in the hand of Thomas Wharton.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0084 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: "Impromptu by M^r. Gray going out of Raby Castle"
  • Date: [between 1753 and 1770]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, 99 mm x 200 mm; transcript in the hand of Thomas Wharton
  • Language: English
  • Location: MS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), f. 234r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 70, 85
  • Contents: Transcript in the hand of Thomas Wharton.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0085 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: "one day the Bishop having offered to give a Gentleman a Goose M^r. Gr[ay]. composed his Epitaph, thus."
  • Date: [between 1753 and 1770]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, 205 mm x 163 mm; transcript in the hand of Thomas Wharton, title revised
  • Language: English
  • Location: MS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), f. 233r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 71, 86
  • Contents: Transcript in the hand of Thomas Wharton.