grayt.ead.0001-mss.0200 Thomas Gray Manuscripts: An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive. Alexander Huber Thomas Gray Archive 2006 Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber, Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005- English grayt.ead.0001-mss.0200#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.cand The Candidate When sly Jemmy Twitcher had smugged up his face [1774?] or 1777 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 78-79 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 243-252

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.

mss.0200 poems.cand The University Courtship [between 1777 and 1826] 2 transcript in the hand of Bertie Greatheed Bertie Greatheed Papers, box 1, folder 37 Osborn Collection Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library YALE Parks, Stephen et al. (ed.), Osborn Collection First-Line Index. New Haven: Beinecke Library, Yale University, 2005, 1000, item W1301 Ducharme, Diane, "Re: Fwd: Enquiry re. two MSS of a Thomas Gray poem". E-mail to Margaret K. Powell, forwarded to the editor, 13 July 2006 Powell, Margaret K., "Re: apologies". E-mail to the editor, 20 July 2006 Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=10646>

Transcript of ll. 1-32 in the hand of Bertie Greatheed , annotated "Written by Mr. Gray when Lord Sandwich was a candidate for the office of Stewart, of the University of Cambridge---".