Now, a word or two on Dodsley's _Collection of Poems_, in the fourth volume of which, as I have stated, Gray's-_Elegy_ comes first. Dodsley's is a popular and well-known work, and yet I cannot find _that anybody has given the dates connected with it accurately_. If Gray's _Elegy_ appeared in it for the first time (which I do not suppose), it came out in 1755 which is the date of vol. iv. of Dodsley's _Collection_, and not in 1757, which is the date of the Strawberry Hill edition of Gray's _Odes_. The Rev. J. Mitford (Aldine edit. xxxiii.) informs us that "Dodsley published three volumes of this _Collection_ in 1752; the fourth volume was published in 1755 and the fifth and sixth volumes, which completed the _Collection_, in 1758." I am writing with the title-pages of the work open before me, and I find that the first three volumes were published, not in 1752, but in 1748, and that even this was the second edition so that there must have been an edition of the first three volumes, either anterior to 1748, or earlier in that year. The sale of the work encouraged Dodsley to add a fourth volume in 1755, and two others in 1758 and the plate of Apollo and the Muses was re-engraved for vols. v. and vi., because the original copper, which had served for vols. i., ii., iii., and iv., was so much worn. This matter will not seem of such trifling importance to those who bear in mind, that if Gray's _Elegy_ did not originally come out in this _Collection_ in 1755, various other poems of great merit and considerable popularity did then make their earliest appearance. THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT. Sept. 1850. P.S. My attention has been directed to the subject of Gray's _Poems_, and particularly to his _Elegy_, by a recent pilgrimage I made to Stoke Poges, which is only five or six miles from this neighbourhood. The church and the poet's monument to his mother are worth a much longer walk; but the mausoleum to Gray, in the immediate vicinity, is a preposterous edifice. The residence of Lady Cobham has been lamentably modernised. * * * * * HUGH HOLLAND AND HIS WORKS. The name of Hugh Holland has been handed down to posterity in connexion with that of our immortal bard; but few know anything of him beyond his commendatory verses prefixed to the first folio of Shakspeare.