"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.0024 (Source: EAD/XML)
- Title: "On Lord Sandwich's canvass for the high stewardship of the University of Cambridge"
- Date: [1783?]
- Physical Description: 3 pages; transcript in an unidentified hand (32 lines)
- Language: English
- Location: Autograph file, G: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771, The Houghton Library, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA, USA <http://library.harvard.edu/>
- References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 80; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=36720>
- Contents: Transcript in an unidentified hand.
Contents
- Collection: Poems, [ca. 1725]-1771
- Work: "The Candidate" [e-text]
- Manuscripts: 1