Alternate Form:
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 103, p. 89; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), p. 25; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), p. 414
Contents: Autograph fair copy, revised, here entitled "Ode. To Adversity" and annotated "at Stoke, Aug. 1742", including two mottoes in Greek from Aeschylus, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, pp. 284-285.
Archive MS ID: mss.0123
Title: "Hymn to Adversity"
Date:8 September [1751]
Physical Description: [2?] pages; autograph fair copy, crossed out
Alternate Form:
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 104, p. 89; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), p. 33; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 161, vol. i, pp. 346-350 (subscription required); Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), p. 415
Contents: Autograph fair copy, here entitled "Hymn to Adversity" (crossed out), in a letter to Horace Walpole, 8 September [1751].
Archive MS ID: mss.0124
Title: [untitled]
Date:[1?] February 1768
Physical Description: 1 page, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph, partial [motto only]
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 105, p. 89; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), p. 414
Contents: Autograph motto for the poem, untitled but numbered 4. and identified on f. 3r as "4. Ode, to Adversity", in MS instructions to Dodsley for the 1768London edition, sent in a letter, [1?] February 1768. The motto first appeared in the poem's version in Poems (1768).
Archive MS ID: mss.0125
Title: [untitled]
Date:1 February 1768
Physical Description: [1?] page, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph, partial [motto only]
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 106, p. 89; Heist, Michael, "RE: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, vol.52, Robert H. Taylor Collection". E-mail to the editor, 11 January 2007
Contents: Autograph motto for the poem in MS instructions to Beattie for the 1768Glasgow edition, originally sent in a letter, 1 February 1768.
Separated Material: The letter in which these instructions were originally sent is now at Historic Collections, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
Archive MS ID: mss.0219
Title: "Ode to Adversity"
Date:1780[?]
Physical Description: 7 pages, 180 mm x 110 mm; transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand on Whatman paper
Contents: Transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand, entitled "Ode to Adversity" (p. 25) ("Ode. IV." [p. 27]). The poem, which includes the motto in Greek and attribution on the title page, is part of a section called "Poems", which is separately paginated and has its own table of contents (p. 129), in a volume entitled Gray's Poems. The book carries the bookplate of Gray's friend and biographer William Mason.
Archive MS ID: mss.0242
Title: "Hymn to Adversity. By Mr Gray."
Date:1755[?]
Physical Description: 3 pages, 152 mm x 90 mm; transcript in an unidentified hand
References: Crum (ed.), First-Line Index (1969), vol. I, p. 185, item D41; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=65390>
Contents: Transcript in an unidentified hand, in six numbered stanzas, in a volume containing extracts and notes, many relating to grammar and language, with copies of verse, in several hands, mainly from printed sources, 18th cent., inscribed Miscellanies and signed "Rob: Trail" (Summary Catalogue, 45980).
Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.
Archive MS ID: mss.0268
Title: "Hymn to adversity"
Date:[between 1768 and 1769]
Physical Description: [?] pages, 190mm x 130mm (volume); transcript
References: Parks, Stephen et al. (ed.), Osborn Collection First-Line Index. New Haven: Beinecke Library, Yale University, 2005, p. 175, item D0034; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 16 April 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=10635>
Contents: Transcript, entitled "Hymn to adversity", in a Commonplace book entitled Amusements 1768-69, a manuscript, in two hands, of a collection of several dozen primarily serious poems and poetical extracts, many on moral and elegiac subjects.
Archive MS ID: mss.0269
Title: "Hymn to adversity"
Date:[between 1766 and 1800]
Physical Description: [?] pages; transcript in the hand of James Forbes
References: Parks, Stephen et al. (ed.), Osborn Collection First-Line Index. New Haven: Beinecke Library, Yale University, 2005, p. 175, item D0034; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 16 April 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=10637>
Contents: Transcript, entitled "Hymn to adversity", in James Forbes' Commonplace book, 1766-1800, vol. I "Poems on Several Occasions Collected from Different Authors", a manuscript collection of approximately 150 poems and excerpts, primarily epitaphs and elegies, poems in praise of virtues, odes dedicated to women, and poems on nature and weather.
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Archive MS ID: mss.0242