Contents: Transcript in an unidentified hand, entitled "Stanza written in a Country Church-Yard", together with a letter from Paget Toynbee suggesting it was a pre-publication transcript that had circulated (lot 46 from an unidentified sale; unknown relationship to Sotheby's sale [15 December 1930], lot 453, sold to Dobell: 2-page transcript with same title).
Related Material: Houghton MS Eng 116.1-8 contain Gray autographs and copies of manuscripts written by or concerning Thomas Gray. Houghton b MS Eng 116.6 (Papers on Thomas Gray) contains photostatic copies of commonplace books, journals, notes, travel notebooks, poems, and other materials chiefly from Pembroke College (Cambridge) and the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Contents: Transcript of the poem, partial, beginning "Approach and read, for thou canst read, the lay", in the hand of "Richard Harris Barham" (also known as Thomas Ingoldsby), in his Commonplace Book (1803-1808), containing poems, paraphrases, epigrams, and conundrums in English, Latin, Greek, and French (62 leaves, 21 cm.), f. 46v.
Contents: Transcript of the poem, in an unidentified hand, from the Egerton MS 2400.
Related Material: In the same file there is another transcript of the poem, from the Fraser MS, in the hand of the donor of the two items James Freeman Clarke.