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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.0273 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • 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, 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".

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