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"[Lines Written at Burnham]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lobt
    • Uniform Title: "[Lines Written at Burnham]" [e-text]
    • First Line: And, as they bow their hoary tops, relate
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 83; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 20
    • Summary: Written at Burnham and sent in a letter to Horace Walpole, [August 1736]. First published, untitled, in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 24.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0096 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [August 1736]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: English
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/3/4/23, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 81, 87; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 32; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 26, vol. i, 46-49 (subscription required); Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled, in a letter to Horace Walpole, [August 1736].

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