grayt.ead.0001-mss.0106Thomas 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.0106#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.odecOde on a Distant Prospect of Eton
CollegeYe distant spires, ye antique towers,1747Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 7-10Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 54-63
Written at Stoke Pogesc. August 1742 during one
of Gray's most
productive periods.
First published, anonymously, as a folio pamphlet by Dodsley, 30 May 1747.
mss.0106poems.odec[untitled]1 February 1768[1?]autograph, partial [motto and notes only]324 mm x 200 mmModern (Bound) Manuscripts, Vol. 52 Robert H. Taylor Collection of
English and American Literature PRINSmith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 91, 88Heist, Michael, "RE: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts,
vol.52, Robert H. Taylor Collection". E-mail to the editor, 11
January 2007
Autograph of the motto and notes to the poem in MS instructions to
Beattie for the
1768Glasgow edition, originally sent in a
letter, 1 February 1768.
The letter in which these instructions were originally
sent is now at Historic Collections, King's College, University
of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.