pp. 428, 433.]

[Footnote 42: "Lives of the Poets," Vol. III. p. 61. Mr. Roscoe says
that no evidence for this statement appears. Johnson is himself the
evidence. He went to London in 1737, when he was 28 years of age, to try
his fortunes as an author, and became intimate with Savage, who was the
ally of Pope, with Dodsley, who published the authentic edition of the
poet's correspondence, and with numerous other persons from whom he was
likely to have received reliable information upon a fact so recent. It
is not to be supposed that Johnson imagined or invented a circumstance
which there is nothing to discredit.]

[Footnote 43: Vol. I. Appendix, pp. 433, 434.]

[Footnote 44: Though the work is printed in two thin volumes, it was
always done up as one.]

[Footnote 45: "Notes and Queries," No. 260, p. 485. This article is from
the same pen as the articles on Pope's correspondence in the
"Athenaeum."]

[Footnote 46: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 430. The statement occurs in a
private note written at the time to Smythe, before the bookseller had
any idea of appealing to the public, or suspected that the letters were
printed by Pope himself.]

[Footnote 47: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 442.]

[Footnote 48: Vol. I. p. xxxvi.]

[Footnote 49: Vol. I. pp. xl. xli. All the statements to which I have
referred occur in this preface of Pope to the quarto of 1737, and some
of them in many other places besides.]

[Footnote 50: Vol. I. p. xxxvii. Appendix, p. 419.]

[Footnote 51: Vol. I. p. xxxv.]

[Footnote 52: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 420.]

[Footnote 53: Vol. I. p. xxxviii. The anonymous friend was put in the
place of Lord Oxford. Half the notes relate to the Wycherley manuscripts
in the Harley library, and could only have proceeded from the author of
that fiction. Pope's official editor, Warburton, signed all the notes
with Pope's name.]

[Footnote 54: Vol. I. p. xxxv.]

[Footnote 55: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 445.]

[Footnote 56: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 444.]

[Footnote 57: This circumstance at once attracted the attention of
Swift. "I detest the House of Lords," he wrote to Lady Betty Germain,
from Dublin, June 8, 1735, "for their indulgence to such a profligate,
prostitute villain as Curll; but am at a loss how he could procure any
letters written to Mr. Pope, although by the vanity or indiscretion of
correspondents the rogue might have picked up some that went from him.
Those letters have not yet been sent hither; therefore I can form