PREFACE Of the Publisher of the Surreptitious Edition, 1735. E prefume we want no apology to the reader for this publication, but fome may be thought needful to Mr. Pope: however he cannot think our offence fo great as theirs, who first feparately published what we have here but collected in a better form and order. As for the letters we have procured to be added, they ferve but to compleat, explain, and sometimes set in a true light, thofe others, which it was not in the writer's, or our power to recall. This collection hath been owing to feveral cabinets : fome drawn from thence by accidents, and others (even of thofe to ladies) voluntarily given. It is to one of that fex we are beholden for the whole correspondence with H. C. efq; which letters being lent her by that gentleman, he took the liberty to print; as appears by he following, which we shall give at length, both as it As fomething curious, and as it may serve for an apology for ourfelves. |