ey
originally appeared in the Cooper edition of 1737 which had not any new
letters.]

[Footnote 124: De Quincey, Works, Vol. xv. p. 132.]

[Footnote 125: Works, Vol. vii. p. 66.]

[Footnote 126: Carruthers, Life of Pope, p. 442.]

[Footnote 127: Warburton's Pope, Ed. 1753, Vol. IX. p. 111.]

[Footnote 128: Pope to Lord Orrery, March, 1737.]

[Footnote 129: Pope to Lord Orrery, March, 1737.]

[Footnote 130: It is among the papers of his friend Lord Bathurst. The
letter is undated, and was published without any date by Curll. When
Pope reproduced it in the quarto of 1737, he dated it August, 1723; and
in the quarto of 1741 he changed the date to January, 1723, which must
be incorrect, since Bolingbroke was then abroad, and did not return to
England till June. Swift's reply is dated September 20, and as it was
between this period and June that the joint letter must have been
written, August is either the true date, or a close approximation to
it.]

[Footnote 131: Pope to Lord Orrery, March, 1737.]

[Footnote 132: Mrs. Whiteway to Lord Orrery.]

[Footnote 133: It is stated in a note to the Dublin edition of the
collection of 1741 that the original of Bolingbroke's appendix had been
discovered among Swift's papers since the publication of the letter by
Curll.]

[Footnote 134: Lord Orrery to Pope, Oct. 4, 1738.]

[Footnote 135: Pope to Mr. Nugent, August 14, 1740. This letter was
first published in the "Gentleman's Magazine" for August, 1849. It is
printed, together with the other letters on the subject, among the Pope
and Swift correspondence in this edition.]

[Footnote 136: The earliest of the three letters bears in the body of
the work, the heading "Mr. Gay to Dr. Swift;" but in the Table of
Contents it is entitled "From Mr. Gay and Mr. Pope," and the language in
portions of the letter itself shows that it was the production of both.]

[Footnote 137: "I never," said the poet to Caryll, November 19, 1712,
"kept any copies of such stuff as I write," which would be decisive of
his custom at that early date, if much reliance could be placed on his
word. In 1716 he commenced correspondence with Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu, and afterwards published several of the letters among his
"Letters to Ladies." He was then at enmity with her, and as she retained
the originals, he must either have borrowed them prior to the quarrel
for the purpose of copying them, or else must have copied them before
they were sent. There