grayt.ead.0001-mss.0244Thomas Gray Manuscripts:An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive.Alexander HuberThomas Gray Archive2006Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber,
Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005-Englishgrayt.ead.0001-mss.0244#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.oxstOn L[or]d H[olland']s Seat near M[argat]e,
K[en]tOld and abandoned by each venal friend,1769Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 53Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 259-264
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.
mss.0244poems.oxstOn Lord Holland [...] at Kingsgate near
Margate1769[?]2transcript in an unidentified hand
220 mm x 162 mm BOD MS Eng.poet.c.6, f. 92 Special Collections BDLN
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in the SCRR at the RSL, Bodleian Library, on 11/03/2010.
Crum (ed.), First-Line
Index (1969), vol. II, 681, item O1000Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare
Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=77210>
Transcript in an unidentified hand, in six numbered stanzas, in a
volume entitled
Memorials of Richard Gough,
volume II, section I. "Poems preserved by Richard Gough
Esq.". The poem is listed with the date "1769" in the
table of contents on fol. 7 of the volume. The volume, which is 14 5/8 x
9 3/4 in. in size and contains 320 leaves, is one of two Volumes of Poems
and other interesting Memorials of Richard Gough, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A..,
collected by J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols (Summary Catalogue, 32551).