grayt.ead.0001-mss.0078Thomas 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.0078#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.imp2[Imitated] From Propertius. Lib: 2: Eleg:
1.You ask why thus my loves I still rehearse,1814Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 64-67Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 44-47
Probably written in April of 1742 and
sent in a letter to Richard
West, [23 April
1742].
First published, except ll. 1-30, in
Mathias (ed.), Works (1814), vol. II, 87-89, published in full in
Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. i,
153.
mss.0078poems.imp2From Propertius. Lib: 2: Eleg: 1. To
MecaenasApril 17422autograph fair copy
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I,
254-255 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 64, 85Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 24
Autograph fair copy, under the heading "Carmina",
here entitled
From Propertius. Lib: 2: Eleg:
1. To Mecaenas, in
Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 254-255.