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Facsimiles include McDermott, Penn and Gray (1930), 14-16 and Fukuhara, Bibliographical Study (1933), plate II
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 33, 82; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 156, vol. i, 334-340 (subscription required); Elegy (1976); Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414; Northup, Bibliography (1917), item 1996; Catalogue of a Sotheby's sale (27 February 1950), lot 239, facsimile in catalogue
Contents: Autograph fair copy, following a letter to Thomas Wharton, 18 December [1750].
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 35, 82
Contents: Autograph notes to the poem, untitled but numbered 10. and identified on f. 3r as "10. Elegy, written in a country-churchyard" in MS instructions to Dodsley for the 1768London edition, sent in a letter, [1?] February 1768. The notes were first published in the poem's version in Poems (1768).
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 82; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414; Northup, Bibliography (1917), item 1997; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=138995>
Contents: Transcript in an unidentified hand, entitled "Stanzas Written in a Country Church Yard", in a volume entitled Hardwicke Papers, vol. DCCCCXXII.
Contents: Transcript in an unidentified hand of 8 lines (one stanza after l. 100 and the "Redbreast stanza" after l. 116) with the former only in the "Eton MS", with notes, in a copy of the Elegy, 8th edition (London, 1753), 10-11, bound in a volume entitled Poetical Tracts.
Related Material: MS 0212 apparently transcribed from MS 0043.
Contents: Transcript of variants of several lines, headed "Various Readings in his Poems, from MSS.", in the hand of John Mitford, in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", ff. 180r, 181r.
Related Material: MS 0210 apparently transcribed from MS 0043.
Contents: Transcript of variants of several lines, entitled "The Elegy. var." (crossed out), in the hand of John Mitford, in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. IV, ff. 32r, 33r.
Related Material: MS 0211 apparently transcribed from MS 0043.
Contents: Transcript of the poem in 32 numbered stanzas in the Strahan Papers, Vol. CVII (ff. 216), Miscellaneous correspondence and papers (1758-1821), ff. 64-66. The transcript follows the MS of John Young's A Criticism on the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (ff. 37-63), sent in a letter of Young's (ff. 35-36) to Lord Maitland, which contains instructions about its printing and publication. The transcript is followed by a note (f. 67): "The Author's Compliments to Mr. Strahan. has transcribed over the Elegy as he wishes it printed. Thinks it will stand best between the Advertisement & the Criticism. - The Title as alter'd by Mr Strahan was / A Criticism / on the Elegy / written in a Country Churchyard / being a Continuation / of Dr J---ns Criticism / on the Poems of Gray."