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X. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. Welcome from Hano-

ver; invites him to Bath to meet Dr. Par-

nelle

XI. Mr. Pope to Dr. Parnelle. Entreating him to

return from London to Binfield to assist

XII. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. Serious effects pro-

duced by the study of Homer.

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28

31

32.

XIII. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. Written in illness;
new plan of criticism; Gay's Fan

XIV. Mr. Pope to Mr. Congreve. On his own tem-
per; his feelings on the publication of Ho-

XVI. Mr. Gay and Mr. Pope to Mr. Congreve.

Character of Mr. Tetcombe; Pope's Ho-

mer; Key to the What-d'ye-call-it; Pope

lives like a rake

XVII. Mr. Pope and Mr. Gay to Dr. Parnelle. The

life of Zoilus; new publications; proposal

to meet at Bath

XVIII. Mr. Jervas, Dr. Arbuthnot, and Mr. Pope,

to Dr. Parnelle.

Jervas's pictures; Par-

nelle's translations; Gay's Trivia; Battle of

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40

the Frogs and Mice

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XIX. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope.

Anxiety for the fate

of his great political friends; criticism on

Pope's Homer; account of his household

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XX. Dr. Parnelle to Mr. Pope. Life of Zoilus;

Tickell's Homer, mistakes in it

50

XXI. Dr. Berkley to Mr. Pope. Opinions on

Pope's Homer

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Letter

XXII. Mr. Gay to Mr. Pope.

XXIII. Dr. Arbuthnot to Mr.

Homer

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The same subject 53

Pope on Tickell's

XXIV. Mr. Gay to Mr. Pope. The Three Hours

after Marriage, damned on the represen-

tation

XXV. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. A scandalous imi-

tation of one of the Psalms of David im-

puted to him; Churches of Rome and of

England

XXVI. Mr. Pope to Dr. Parnelle. Complains of

his silence; invitation to accompany Dr.

XXVII. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. Mr. Pope's poli-

tics; his enemies; poisoning of Edmund

Curll; Quaker verses; new Pastorals

XXVIII. Mr. Pope to Dr. Parnelle. Remembrance

of him; life of Zoilus; intends to pub-

lish his own poems

XXIX. Dean Berkley to Mr. Pope, from Naples.

Description of the island Inarime; Sal-

vini reading Pope's Homer

XXX. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. The death of his

father. Complains of Gay's silence

XXXI. Mr. Gay to Mr. Fortescue. Account of the

Death of John Hewet and Sarah Drew

by lightning, at Stanton-Harcourt. (The
same circumstance is related by Pope to
Miss Blount, and also to Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu, nearly in the same
terms.)

XXXII. Mr. Pope to Mr. Fenton. On Mr. Fenton's

engaging to reside with Mr. Craggs

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XXXIII. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. Long letter con-
taining Dr. Swift's political creed, in
which he maintains his attachment to
Whig principles, and defends his con-

duct to the Whigs when his Tory
friends were in power

(This letter Pope said he never received,

nor did he believe it was ever sent.)

XXXIV. Mr. Pope to Dr. Berkley. Invitation to
Twickenham

XXXV. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. On Gay's illness,
and his own anxiety for his mother

XXXVI. The same to the same. On the same sub-

XXXVII. The same to the same. On the same sub-

XXXVIII. The same to the same. On great men;
and on Gay's intended visit to Tun-
bridge

XXXIX. The same to the same.

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Unfavourable

state of his health; his attachment to

Gay, Arbuthnot, and Congreve

XL. The same to the same. Remembrance to

Mr. Congreve; Gay's corpulency; At-

terbury in the Tower

XLI. Mr. Gay to Dr. Swift. Attachment to

Swift; disappointed in favours from the

great

105

XLII. Dr. Swift to Mr. Gay. Course of his life

in Ireland; inquiries after his friend's

reason why poets have such ill success

in making their court; advises Gay to-

get a place under Government in Ire-

land

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XLIII. Mr. Pope and Lord Bolingbroke to Dr.

Swift. Remarks on their mutual friends;

results of Pope's experience; his present

state of mind; Bolingbroke's contrast

of his life with Pope's; picture of himself 113

XLIV. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. His unwillingness

to write letters; notions of friendship;

XLV. Dr. Arbuthnot to Dr. Swift. General com-
mendation of Swift; proposed cure for
his vertigo; the spa; his own complaints,
and frame of mind

XLVI. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. Notice of Dr.

Stopford; Gulliver's Travels; invitation

to England; Mrs. Howard; sickness of

Dr. Arbuthnot

XLVII. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. His employments;

professions of misanthropy; thanks Pope.

for the Odyssey; his concern for Dr.

Arbuthnot; Gay and Philips

XLVIII. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. Their old friends;

recovery of Dr. Arbuthnot; Gay, and

his trust in Mrs. Howard; improved

mind of Lord Bolingbroke; intended

refutation of Rochefoucault's maxims;

XLIX. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. His contempt of the

world; disclaims the imputation of mis-

anthropy; approves of Rochefoucault

L. Mr. Pope and Lord Bolingbroke to Dr.

Swift. Pope's resolution to pass by

scribblers in silence; his enemies and

friends; Bolingbroke's character of Se-

neca; definition of man

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LI. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. Concern for Pope's

ill health; Prepares for his journey to Eng-

land

LII. Mr. Congreve to Mr. Pope. An excuse for

not waiting on him

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LIII. The same to the same.

Thanks for offer of

Spa water

147

LIV. The same to the same. Their friendship; his
health, and that of Mr. Gay; time to give
Mr. Curll another emetic

LV. Dr. Young to Mr. Pope. Request of a pro-

logue

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LVI. Lord Bolingbroke to the Three Yahoos of

Twickenham. A jocular note

LVII. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. On his departure to
Ireland; regret of Pope
LVIII. The same to the same. Conference with Sir

R. Walpole as to Swift's residence in Eng-
land; none of their friends qualified for re-
tirement; his indifference to politics

LIX. Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot. His melancholy
occupations; malicious reports respecting

LX. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. Injury to his hand;
congratulations on Gulliver's Travels; af-
fected ignorance as to the author; depre-
cates politics

LXI. Mr. Gay to Dr. Swift. Criticisms on Gulli-
ver's Travels; Swift expected again in Eng-
land

LXII. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. Gulliver's Travels;

journey to England; deprivation of a par-

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son.

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