6.]

[Footnote 106: Pope to Fortescue, April, 1736.]

[Footnote 107: Pope to Allen, Nov. 6, 1736.]

[Footnote 108: Chancery Bill, Dodsley _v._ Watson.]

[Footnote 109: Johnson's "Lives of the Poets," Vol. III. p. 63.]

[Footnote 110: Ruffhead's "Life of Pope," p. 465.]

[Footnote 111: Vol. I. Appendix, pp. 423, 447.]

[Footnote 112: Pope to Allen, June 5, 1736.]

[Footnote 113: Pope probably kept back from the quarto the unpublished
letters he inserted in the octavo that their novelty might assist the
sale of the edition which was intended to come out last. He would not
use the new letters without his unfailing pretext that they "were in
such hands as to be in imminent danger of being printed."]

[Footnote 114: These particulars are derived from the Chancery Bill
_Dodsley_ v. _Watson_, and from the documents preserved by Pope's
solicitor, Mr. Cole, and now in the possession of his successors in the
business, Messrs. Janssen and Co. I owe the extracts from Cole's papers
to Mr. Dilke, who was indebted for them to the present members of the
firm.]

[Footnote 115: Vol. I. p. xliii.]

[Footnote 116: The words were introduced by the poet's friend and
counsel Murray when he revised, or, in legal phrase, settled the bill.
The rough draft submitted to him is among the papers of Mr. Cole, and
the parallel passage only states that the letters written and received
by Mr. Pope "having fallen into the hands of several booksellers, they
thought fit to print a surreptitious edition," which did not preclude
the supposition that one or more of the editions might be genuine.
Whenever Pope, throughout the business, could use equivocal language he
always selected it.]

[Footnote 117: "Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence," 12mo. Vol. III. p.
xii.]

[Footnote 118: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 423, 447.]

[Footnote 119: Vol. I. p. 1. He is speaking of Curll's reprint, which
has no letters that were not in the original P. T. volume.]

[Footnote 120: Pope to Swift, May 17, 1739.]

[Footnote 121: Covent Garden Journal, No. 23, March 21, 1752.]

[Footnote 122: Warton's Pope, Vol. I. p. lv.]

[Footnote 123: The second edition of the octavo has a few more notes
than the first edition. To distinguish it I have quoted it by the title
of Cooper 1737, from the name of the publisher. I had not seen the first
edition of the octavo till after Vol. I. of the Correspondence was
printed, and I have erroneously stated of one or two letters that th