Shelfmark
MS 281A
Author
Title
Stanzas wrote in a country church-yard. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between 1747 and 1750.
Physical description
1 volume (4 pages) : paper ; 32 x 25 cm.
Note
Caption title. Later published as Elegy written in a country churchyard.
Note
Place and date of production inferred from Gray's biography and the publication history of the elegy.
Note
The sheets of the manuscript have been mounted onto larger sheets bound into the volume. The dimensions of the original sheets are 20 x 16.5 cm.
Note
A fair copy autograph manuscript with some revisions. Often referred to as the Fraser manuscript.
Note
Written in ink. Heavily creased.
Note
Another contemporary autograph manuscript is at the British Library, MS 2400.
Provenance
Left to Eton School Library in 1899 as a bequest from Sir William Augustus Fraser (1826-1898). See Eton Chronicle for 30 June 1899, p. 684.
Binding
Late 20th or early 21st century light brown quarter goat; brown nonpareil marbled paper covering boards; housed in a brown buckram covered solander box also containing MS 281B.
Subject
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England
Language code
dcrmmss
Identifier
B49740