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.