"The Candidate"
Archive Work ID: poems.cand
Uniform Title: "The Candidate" [e-text]
First Line: When sly Jemmy Twitcher had smugged up his face Language: EnglishFirst Published: [1774?] or 1777
References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 78-79; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 243-252
Summary: 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 .
1 Manuscript:
Archive MS ID: mss.0252 (Source: EAD/XML )
Title: "By Mr Gray on Lord S's soliciting the High Stewardship of Cambridge"
Date: [undated]
Physical Description: 2 pages, c. 230 mm x 190 mm; transcript in an unidentified hand (32 lines) Language: EnglishLocation: Add. MS 11279 , f. 15, Manuscripts Collection, British Library ,
London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/> References: Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index . Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 9 April 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=116159 >Contents: 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.
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Collection: Poems, [ca. 1725]-1771Work: "The Candidate" [e-text]Manuscripts: 1