_Gray's Elegy_ (Vol. ii., p. 264.).--The HERMIT OF HOLYPORT is referred
to the 4to. edit. of the _Works of Gray_, by Thos. Jas. Mathias, in
which, vol. i. at the end of the Elegy, in print, he will find "From the
original in the handwriting of Thos. Gray:
"'Save where the beetle wheels his _droning_ flight.'"
From the autograph the Elegy appears to have been written in 1750; and
the margin states, published in Feb. 1751, by Dodsley, and went through
four editions in two months; and afterwards a fifth, sixth, seventh and
eighth, ninth and tenth, and eleventh; printed also in 1753, with Mr.
Bentley's designs, of which there is a second edition; and again by
Dodsley in his _Miscellany_, vol. iv.; and in a Scotch collection,
called the _Union_. Translated into Latin by Chr. Anstey, Esq., and the
Rev. Mr. Roberts, and published in 1762; and again in the same year by
Rob. Lloyd, M.A. The original MS. of the above will be found among the
MSS. of Thos. Gray, in the possession of the Masters and Fellows of
Pembroke House, Cambridge.