grayt.ead.0001-mss.0252Thomas 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.0252#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.candThe CandidateWhen sly Jemmy Twitcher had smugged up his face[1774?] or 1777Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 78-79Lonsdale (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.0252poems.candBy Mr Gray on Lord S's soliciting the High Stewardship of Cambridge[undated]2transcript in an unidentified hand (32 lines)
c. 230 mm x 190 mmAdd. MS 11279, f. 15 Manuscripts Collection BLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 07/07/2010.
Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger
Shakespeare Library. 9 April 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=116159>
Transcript in an unidentified hand (32 lines), here beginning "When sly Jemmy Twitcher had snug'd up his
face", in a quarto volume of miscellaneous pieces of poetry, entitled
Miscellaneous
Poetry and "presented by Rev. T. Crompton", written in the 18th and 19th
centuries, to which the names of the respective authors are assigned.