LXXXVII. From Dr Swift. Mention again of the

chafm in the letters. Objections in Ireland

to fome paffages in Mr Pope's letters publish-

ed in England. The Dean's own opinion of

them.

LXXXVIII. From Dr Swift. Of his declining state of

health. His opinion of Mr P's Dialogue,

intitled, One Thousand Seven Hundred

and Thirty-Eight. The entire collection of

his and Mr Pope's letters, for twenty years

and upwards, found, and in the hands of a

lady, a worthy and judicious relation of the

Dean's.---This is a mistake; not in hers;.

but in fome other fafe hands.

LETTERS to RALPH ALLEN, Efq.

LXXXIX. Of the use of picture and sculpture, both for

civil and religious purposes.

XC. Of a new edition of his letters, and the use of

them.

XCI. Of the cultivation of his own gardens.
XCII. Reflections on a false report concerning his
own death.

XCIII. On the Queen's death.

XCIV Concerning an object of their common charity.
XCV. His folicitude for his friends.

XCVI. An account of his ill state of health in his
laft illness.

LETTERS to Mr WARBURTON.

XCVII. His acceptance of the Commentary on the
ESSAY ON MAN.

VII. XCIX. C. CI. On the fame.

CII. His expectation of seeing him in town.
CIII. His opinion of the Divine Legation; and
his defire to have the ESSAY ON MAN thought

as favourable to the interests of religion as
of virtue.

CIV. His project of procuring a profe translation
of his Effay into Latin, and his approbation
of a fpecimen fent to him of it.

CV. His chagrine on fomebody's having printed a
new volume of his Letters ir Ireland.

·CVI. His fatisfaction in the prospect of meeting
his friend in town.

CVII. Acquainting him with his obligations to a
noble Lord.

CVIII. An account of his project for adding a fourth
book to the DUNCIAD.

CIX, CX. Invites his friend to Bath.

CXI. CXII. CXIII. Relating to the projected edition of
his works, and the fourth book of the DUNCIAD.

CXIV. On a noble Lord who made professions of ser-

vice.

CXV. A character of their common friend---his a-
mufements in his garden, and folicitude for
the projected edition.

·CXVI. Defires his friend to correct the Essay on Homer.
CXVII. Thanks him for having done it.

CXVIII. Account of the publication of the DUNCIAD.
CXIX, of his ill fate of health.---The edition of his
works.---The laureat---and the clergy.

CXX. CXXI. The increafe of his diforder, and the
forefight of its confequences.

The laft Will of Mr Pope.

LETTERS

TO AND FROM

Mr GAY,

From 1712 to 1732.

LETTER I.

Binfield, Nov. 13. 1712.

You

writ me a very kind Letter fome months

ago, and told me you were then upon the point of taking a journey into Devonshire. That hindered my answering you, and I have fince feveral times inquired of you, without any fatisfaction; for fo I call the knowledge of your welfare, or of any thing that concerns you. I past two months in Suffex, and fince my return have been again very ill. I writ to Lintot, in hopes of hearing of you, but had no answer to that point. Our friend Mr Cromwell too has been filent all this year; I believe he has been displeased at fome or other of my freedoms, which I very innocently take, and most with those I

friends.

think most my But this I know nothing of; perhaps he may have opened to you: and if I know you right, you are of a temper to cement friendships, and not to divide them, I really much love Mr Cromwell, and have a true affection for yourself, which, if I had any intereft in the world, or power with those who have, I fhould not be long without manifefting to you. I defire you will not, either out of modesty, or a vicious distrust of another's vaJue for you (those two eternal foes to merit) imagine that your letters and converfation are not always There is no man more intirely fond

welcome to me. of good-nature or ingenuity than myself, and I have feen to much of thofe qualities in you too be any thing less than

Your, &c.

LETTER II.

Dec. 24. 1721.

T has been my good fortune within this month

IT

paft, to hear more things that have pleas'd me than (I think) almost in all my time befide. But nothing, upon my word, has been fo home-felt a fatisfaction as the news you tell me of yourself and you are not in the least mistaken, when you congratulate me upon your own good fuccefs: for I have more people out of whom to be happy, than any ill-natur'd man can boaft of. I may with honefty affirm to you, that, notwithstanding the many inconveniences and difadvantages they commonly talk of in