grayt.ead.0001-mss.0097Thomas 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.0097#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.lostA Long StoryIn Britain's isle, no matter where,1753Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 43-48Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 142-152
Written and revised at Stoke Pogesbetween August and October
1750 when Gray was staying there with his aunt.
First published in Dodsley's
Designs (1753), [14].
mss.0097poems.lostA Long Story17503autograph fair copy, corrected
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55-57Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29
November 1845), lot 605, 10, Sotheby's sale (28 August 1851),
lot 53, 41, Sotheby's sale (4
August 1854), lot 227, 69W[right]., Catalogue (1851), [lot 53,] 9