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 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 LXXXIX. Of the ufe of picture and fculpture, both for XC. Of a new edition of his letters, and the use of XCI. Of the cultivation of his own gardens. XCIV. Concerning an object of their common charity. XCVI. An account of his ill flate of health in his XCVII. His acceptance of the Commentary on the CII. His expectation of feeing him in town. as favourable to the interefts of religion as CIV. His project of procuring a profe translation CV. His chagrine on fomebody's having printed a CVI. His fatisfaction in the prospect of meeting CVII. Acquainting him with his obligations to a CVIII. An account of his project for adding a fourth CIX. CX. Invites his friend to Bath. CXI. CXII. CXIII. Relating to the projected edition of vice. CXV. A character of their common friend---his a- CXVI. Defires his friend to correct the Essay on Homer. CXVIII. Account of the publication of the DUNCIAD. CXX. CXXI. The increase of his diforder, and the The laft Will of Mr Pope. LETTERS TO AND FROM Mr GAY, From 1712 to 1732. LETTER I. Binfield, Nov. 13. 1712. OU writ me a very kind Letter fome months You 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 VOL. VI. A think moft my friends. 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 friendhips, 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 value for you (those two eternal foes to merit) imagine that your letters and converfation are not always welcome to me. There is no man more intirely fond of good-nature or ingenuity than myself, and I have feen to much of thofe qualities in you too be any * thing less than LETTER II. Your, &c. Dec. 24. 1721. T has been my good fortune within this month past, to hear more things that have pleas'd me But no than (I think) almost in all my time befide. thing, 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 boast of. I may with honesty affirm to you, that, notwithstanding the many inconveniences and difadvantages they commonly talk of in |