grayt.ead.0001-mss.0050Thomas 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.0050#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.epld[Epitaph on a Child]Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies1884Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 104Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 209-210
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.
mss.0050poems.epldEpitaph on a Child[between 1845 and 1856]1transcript in the hand of
John
Mitford180 mm x 115 mmAdd. MS 32561, f. 74r
Manuscripts Collection BLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 07/10/2006.
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 38, 82Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
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.