love of gardening. Reflections on XXXIV. From the Earl of Peterborow. Stowe-gardens: Temper of women: His love of laziness, and the reason. XXXVI. From the Earl of Peterborow. His diflike of coming to town: The Charitable Corporation; more con- XXXVII. From the Earl of Peterborow from XXXVIII. From the fame. Defire to fee Dr. Swift. Alteration in his paffions, and from whence. XXXIX. From Dr. Swift to the Earl of Pe- XL. A confultation about defigning a general reflections. LETTER XLII. To Mr. Richardfon. XLIII. To the fame; after Mrs. Pope's death. XLIV. To the fame. XLV. To Mr. B. concerning the Essay on Man, &c. XLVI. Concern for the lofs of friends. XLVII. From Dr. Arbuthnot in his last ficknefs. His dying request to the author. XLVIII. The answer. The character of Katharine late Duchefs of Buckinghamfire and Normanby. p. 246 LETTERS LETTERS TO AND FROM EDWARD BLOUNT, Efq. The Hon. ROBERT DIGBY, Dr. ATTERBURY, Bishop of ROCHESTER, Mr. GAY, and Others. LETTERS TO AND FROM EDWARD BLOUNT, Esq. From 1714 to 1725. LETTER I. Mr. POPE to EDWARD BLOUNT, Efq. W Aug. 27, 1714. Hatever ftudies on the one hand, or amusements on the other, it shall be my fortune to fall into, I shal be equally incapable of forgetting you in any of them. The tafk I undertook, though of weight enough in itself, has had a voluntary increase by the inlarging my defign of the Notes; and the neceffity of confulting a num The Tranflation of Ho-Odyffey were Dr. Broome's. mer's Iliad. P.But they speak their reThe note: on the Iliad fpective Authors. were his own; Thofe on the |