grayt.ead.0001-mss.0057Thomas 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.0057#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.epww[Epitaph on Sir William Williams]Here, foremost in the dangerous paths of fame,1775Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 104-105Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 238-240
Written between May and August
1761 at the request of one of the executors of Sir William
Williams, a politician and soldier Gray briefly met early in
October 1760, who died 27 April 1761 on an expedition against
Belle Ile.
First published, as
Epitaph II. On Sir
William Williams, in Mason'sPoems (1775), 62.
mss.0057poems.epww[untitled][between 1845 and 1856]1transcript in the hand of
John
Mitford, partial [ll. 5-6] and crossed out
180 mm x 110 mmAdd. MS 32562, f. 32v Manuscripts Collection BLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 07/10/2006.
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 83
Transcript of ll. 5-6 in the hand of John
Mitford (crossed out), annotated "Mr. Montague asked him
to write the Epitaph on Sir W. Williams, he could not refuse. He did not
know much of him...", in John Mitford,