grayt.ead.0001-mss.0007Thomas Gray Manuscripts:An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive.Alexander HuberThomas Gray Archive2006Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber,
Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005-Englishgrayt.ead.0001-mss.0007#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.lt03[Alcaic Fragment]O lachrymarum Fons, tenero sacros1775LatinStarr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 140-141 (with English
prose translation)Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 308 (with English
prose translation)
Written at Cambridge when Gray was about to join
Richard
West at the
Inner Temple, where they intended to study law together.
First published, untitled, in Mason's
Memoirs (1775), section I, letter no. XIV. Mason is the only source for this
letter,
dated June 1738, in which Gray originally
sent the poem to West.
mss.0007poems.lt03[untitled][1738?]1autograph fair copyLatin
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 90 College Library PBCC
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999),
reel one
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 5, 79Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 21Martin, Chronologie (1931), 137
Autograph fair copy, untitled but identified in the index
at the end as
Tears, (Latin
Alcaïc) fragment on them, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 90.