Thomas
Gray
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"On L[or]d H[olland']s Seat near M[argat]e, K[en]t"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.oxst
    • Uniform Title: "On L[or]d H[olland']s Seat near M[argat]e, K[en]t" [e-text]
    • First Line: Old and abandoned by each venal friend,
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1769
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), p. 53; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), pp. 259-264
    • Summary: Written while on a visit to William Robinson in Denton, Kent, in June 1768. First published, anonymously without Gray's consent, as "Inscription for the Villa of a decay'd Satesman [sic] on the Sea-Coast", in The New Foundling Hospital for Wit (London, 1769) iii. 34-35.

    9 Manuscripts:


      • Archive MS ID: mss.0131
      • Title: "On seeing the Seat of a decayed Nobleman in Kent"
      • Date: 1 May 1777
      • Physical Description: 1 page, 325 mm x 220 mm; transcript, revised and annotated, in the hand of William Cole
      • Language: English
      • Location: Add. MS 5821, f. 55v, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 109, p. 89; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), p. 414; Northup, Bibliography (1917), item 1997; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=109944>
      • Contents: Transcript, revised and annotated, in the hand of William Cole, in a volume entitled Cambridgeshire Collections, Vol. XX, bequeathed by Rev. W. Cole. The transcript is here entitled "On seeing the Seat of a decayed Nobleman in Kent" and beginning "Old & abandon'd by its venal Friend", annotated "These Verses on Lord Holland, are said to have been composed by Mr. Gray: Dr Glynn dictated them to me at Milton May 1. 1777."

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0127
      • Title: "On Lord Holland's seat at Kingsgate"
      • Date: [after 1804?]
      • Physical Description: 2 pages, 198 mm x 159 mm; transcript in an unidentified hand
      • Language: English
      • Location: Add. MS 39936, f. 141, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), p. 89; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), p. 414
      • Contents: Transcript, entitled "On Lord Holland's seat at Kingsgate. By Mr. Gray" in an unidentified hand, in a volume entitled Twining Papers, vol. VIII "Miscellaneous".

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0207
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [after 1769]
      • Physical Description: 2 pages, 220 mm x 177 mm; transcript in an unidentified hand
      • Language: English
      • Location: Add. MS 61842, f. 55, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), p. 89; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), p. 414; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=137055>
      • Contents: Transcript in an unidentified hand in the form of six numbered stanzas, untitled, but headed "The following Stanzas were written by Mr. Gray at Kingsgate in Kent, the Seat of Lord Holland", in a volume entitled Eighteenth Century Verse.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0128
      • Title: On Lord Holland's Marine Villa at Kingsgate, by Mr Gray
      • Date: [between 1771 and 1806]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript
      • Language: English
      • Location: MS Eng 926, pp. 116-118, The Houghton Library, Harvard University Libraries, Cambridge, MA, USA <http://hcl.harvard.edu/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), p. 89; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=55640> (no author attribution)
      • Contents: Transcript of the poem in Charlotte Anne Hester Burney's (who became Mrs. Francis, and afterwards married Ralph Broome) verse Commonplace book (1771-1806), pp. 116-118.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimiles [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0129
      • Title: [?]
      • Date: [1782?]
      • Physical Description: [?] pages; transcript in an unidentified hand
      • Language: English
      • Location: Portland Papers, Vol. XIX, f. 222, Library and Archives, Longleat House, Warminster, UK <http://www.longleat.co.uk/explore/longleat-house>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), p. 89
      • Contents: Transcript in an unidentified hand.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0237
      • Title: "Inscription for a villa of a decayed statesman on the sea coast"
      • Date: [after 1805]
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; transcript in an unidentified hand on a "leaf watermarked 1805"
      • Language: English
      • Location: MS Lt q 49, f. 39, Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse, Special Collections, Leeds University Library, Leeds, UK <http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/>
      • References: Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=3707>
      • Contents: Transcript in an unidentified hand, beginning "Old and abandon'd by each venal friend", on a "leaf watermarked 1805 inserted in a scrapbook of miscellaneous original and transcribed poems written out from c.1750 to the twentieth century".

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0244
      • Title: "On Lord Holland [...] at Kingsgate near Margate"
      • Date: 1769[?]
      • Physical Description: 2 pages, 220 mm x 162 mm; transcript in an unidentified hand
      • Language: English
      • Location: BOD MS Eng.poet.c.6, f. 92, Special Collections, Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK <http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/library/specialcollections>
      • References: Crum (ed.), First-Line Index (1969), vol. II, p. 681, item O1000; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=77210>
      • Contents: Transcript in an unidentified hand, in six numbered stanzas, in a volume entitled Memorials of Richard Gough, volume II, section I. "Poems preserved by Richard Gough Esq.". The poem is listed with the date "1769" in the table of contents on fol. 7 of the volume. The volume, which is 14 5/8 x 9 3/4 in. in size and contains 320 leaves, is one of two Volumes of Poems and other interesting Memorials of Richard Gough, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A.., collected by J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols (Summary Catalogue, 32551).
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0273
      • Title: "On the seat of a decayed nobleman in the Isle of Thanet"
      • Date: [?]
      • Physical Description: [?] pages; transcript
      • Language: English
      • Location: File 17399, Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT (Beinecke)/Farmington, CT (Lewis Walpole), USA <http://www.library.yale.edu/>
      • References: Parks, Stephen et al. (ed.), Osborn Collection First-Line Index. New Haven: Beinecke Library, Yale University, 2005, p. 608, item O0840; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 16 April 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=10645>
      • Contents: Transcript entitled "On the seat of a decayed nobleman in the Isle of Thanet".