grayt.ead.0001-mss.0031Thomas 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.0031#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.lt05De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber
Primus. Ad Favonium. Unde Animus scire incipiat: quibus inchoet orsa1775LatinStarr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 156-167 (with English
prose translation)Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 321-332 (with English
prose translation)
Begun at Florence not earlier than 7 July 1740 and abandoned at Stoke Poges by
June 1742. Shortly before leaving Florence, Gray sent ll. 1-53 in a
letter, dated 21 April 1741, to Richard West (Favonius).
First published in Mason's
Memoirs (1775), 160-167.
mss.0031poems.lt05De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber
Primus: Ad Favonium17404autograph, revisedLatin
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 129,
138, 289, 438 College Library PBCC
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999),
reel one
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 23, 81Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 22, 23, 25, 26Martin, Chronologie (1931), 128
Autograph, revised, with line numbers (10, 20, etc.) and
marginal notes, unfinished, annotated "Begun at Florence in 1740", in
Gray's
Commonplace Book, vol. I, split over four pages: p.
129 (ll. 1-27), 138 (ll. 28-79), 289 (ll. 80-151), and p.
438 (ll. 152-207). In the index to the Commonplace Book, the poem is listed as Thinking (the Principles of) a Latin Poem,
unfinish'd.