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Shelfmark

MS 281B

Author

Gray, Thomas

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

Gray, Thomas

Added entry--name

Mason, William, 1724 - 1797 former owner.

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Dixon, W. H. (William Henry), 1783 - 1854 former owner.

Added entry--name

Wordsworth, William, 1770 - 1850 former owner.

Added entry--name

Murray, John, 1851 - 1928 donor.

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Smith, Reginald J.. donor.

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Mumm, Arnold Louis. donor.

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Macmillan, George A. (George Augustin), 1855 - 1936 donor.

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Murray, A. H. Hallam (Alexander Henry Hallam), 1854 - 1934 donor.

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Smith, William Frederick Danvers, 1868 - 1928 donor.

Added entry--place

England

Language code

dcrmmss

Identifier

B49741
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