grayt.ead.0001-mss.0193Thomas 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.0193#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.vsfr[Verse Fragments]Gratitude1890Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 196Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 277-278
Written probably in 1754, copied by William Mason from Gray's
pocketbook for that year.
First published, among "Thoughts and Verse Fragments", in
Tovey (ed.), Gray
and his Friends (1890), 269-270.
mss.0193poems.vsfr[untitled][1754]1transcript in the hand of William Mason
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. III,
1110 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 165, 95Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 30
Transcript in the hand of William Mason, 12 lines beginning
"Gratitude/ The Joy that trembles in her eye", within the
"Extract from Mr Gray's Pocket Books... 1754",
in Gray's