grayt.ead.0001-mss.0011Thomas 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.0011#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.aleg[The Alliance of Education and Government.
A Fragment]As sickly plants betray a niggard earth,1775Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 93-97Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 85-100
Written in 1748-49 and probably abandoned by March 1749. Gray sent ll. 1-57 of the
fragment in a letter,
dated 19 August 1748, to Thomas Wharton.
First published, entitled
Essay
I, in Mason'sMemoirs (1775), 193-200.
mss.0011poems.aleg[untitled][before 1794]3transcript in the hand of Thomas Wharton, partial [ll.
58-107]
230 mm x 185 mmMS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), ff. 31-32r Manuscripts Collection BLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 25/11/2006.
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 8, 79Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
Transcript of ll. 58-107, untitled, in the hand of Thomas
Wharton, following a
letter by
Gray, containing
ll. 1-57, to Wharton, 19 August [1748] (see
MS 0010).