• Archive Work ID: poems.inma
• Uniform Title: "[Invitation to Mason]" [e-text]
• First Line: Prim Hurd attends your call and Palgrave proud,
• Language: English
• First Published: 1853
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), p. 82; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), pp. 257-258
• Summary: Written at Cambridge not later than 8 January 1768, when Gray sent it in a letter to William Mason. First published, untitled and beginning "Weddell attends your call...", in Mitford (ed.), Correspondence of Gray and Mason (1853), p. 412.

4 Manuscripts:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0090
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: 8 January 1768
  • Physical Description: [1?] page; autograph
  • Language: English
  • Location: Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 75, p. 86; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 461, vol. iii, pp. 992-995 (subscription required)
  • Contents: Autograph, here untitled, in a letter to William Mason, 8 January 1768.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0091
  • Title: "Lines"
  • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, 180 mm x 115 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford
  • Language: English
  • Location: Add. MS 32561, f. 184r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 76, p. 86; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), p. 414
  • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Mitford, here entitled "Lines", in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", f. 184r.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0209
  • Title: "Lines"
  • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, 180 mm x 110 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford, crossed out
  • Language: English
  • Location: Add. MS 32562, f. 31r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), p. 86
  • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Mitford (crossed out), here entitled "Lines", in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. IV, f. 31r.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0089
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, 180 mm x 110 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford, partial [ll. 2, 8] and crossed out
  • Language: English
  • Location: Add. MS 32562, f. 119, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), p. 86
  • Contents: Transcript of ll. 2 and 8 (crossed out) in the hand of John Mitford, in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. IV, f. 119.