Shelfmark
MS 281B
Author
Title
Ode, on a prospect of Windsor and the adjacent country. in 1743. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1743.
Physical description
1 volume (3 pages) : paper ; 32 x 25 cm.
Note
Caption title. Later published as Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College.
Note
Place of production inferred from Gray's biography, and date of production from the caption title.
Note
The sheets of the manuscript have been mounted onto larger sheets bound into the volume. The dimensions of the original sheets are 23 x 19 cm.
Note
A fair copy autograph manuscript.
Note
Written in ink. Heavily creased.
Provenance
Passed to Thomas Gray's executor William Mason (1725-1797).
Provenance
Mason's nephew William Henry Dixon inherited the manuscript and passed it to William Wordsworth. A note on an envelope enclosed records: 'Given to Mr Wordsworth by the Revd. W. Dixon, nephew of Mason, with the printed Elegy to Mason's memory & his autographs. This is my mother's handwriting, W. Wordsworth April 1881. The remainder that of my Brother in law, Edwd Quillinan'.
Provenance
Given to Eton College by a consortium of Old Etonian publishers, including Reginald J. Smith, George A. Macmillan, Arnold L. Mumm, W.F.D. Smith, A.H. Hallam Murray, and John Murray IV. A calligraphic note recording this is inserted in the solander box.
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
Mason, William, 1724 - 1797 former owner.
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Dixon, W. H. (William Henry), 1783 - 1854 former owner.
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Wordsworth, William, 1770 - 1850 former owner.
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Murray, John, 1851 - 1928 donor.
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Mumm, Arnold Louis. donor.
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Added entry--place
England
Language code
dcrmmss
Identifier
B49741