grayt.ead.0001-mss.0197Thomas 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.0197#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.wsmaWilliam Shakespeare to Mrs Anne, Regular
Servant to the Revd Mr Precentor of YorkA moment's patience, gentle Mistress Anne!1853Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 80-81Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 252-255
Written early in July 1765 while on a
visit to Thomas
Wharton at Old Park, Durham,
and sent in a
letter to William
Mason, [c. 8 July
1765].
First published in Mitford (ed.), Correspondence of Gray and Mason (1853), letter
XC, 339-340.
mss.0197poems.wsmaVerses from Wm Shakspeare to Mrs Anne
Regular Servant to the Revd Mr Precentor of York[between 1845 and 1856]1transcript in the hand of
John
Mitford180 mm x 115 mmAdd. MS 32561, f. 185
Manuscripts Collection BLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 07/10/2006.
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 168, 96
Transcript, with stanza 5 following stanza 2, in the hand of
John
Mitford, here entitled
Verses from Wm Shakspeare to Mrs Anne Regular
Servant to the Revd Mr Precentor of York and annotated
"Tell me, if you don't like this, and I'll send you a worse",
in John Mitford, Note-Books,
vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books",
f. 185.