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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), 53; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 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.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0128 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • 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, 116-118, The Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA <http://library.harvard.edu/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 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), 116-118.

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