"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.0129 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • 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/longleat-house>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 89
  • Contents: Transcript in an unidentified hand.