Poems, [ca. 1725]-1771

• "The Candidate"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.cand
  • Uniform Title: "The Candidate" [e-text]
  • First Line: When sly Jemmy Twitcher had smugged up his face
  • Language: English
  • First Published: [1774?] or 1777
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 78-79; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 243-252
  • Summary: Written between January and March 1764 when Lord Sandwich's campaign for the post of High Steward at Cambridge was at its height. First(?) printed, ll. 1-32, entitled "The Candidate: By Mr. Gray" in [1774?] by Walpole at his Strawberry Hill Press. Published, ll. 1-32, untitled, in the London Evening Post, February 1777.

  1 Manuscript:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0023 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [between 1777 and 1780]
    • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript in the hand of Michael Tyson
    • Language: English
    • Location: MS Ch.H.1.41, Chamberlain Collection, Rare Books and Manuscripts Department, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, USA <http://www.bpl.org/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 80; Zonghi, Roberta, "transcript". E-mail to the editor, 10 July 2006
    • Contents: Transcript of ll. 1-32 in the hand of Michael Tyson, headed "written by Mr. Gray at the time the Earl of Sandwich was candidate for the High Stewardship of the University of Cambridge".