g the case of
Tonson _v._ Collins, that the letters "were published with the
connivance at least, if not under the direction of Swift," to which Lord
Mansfield replied, "Certainly not. Dr. Swift disclaimed it, and was
extremely angry." But this is opposed to the united evidence of Mrs.
Whiteway, Faulkner, and Pope, who all concur in testifying that Swift
consented to the publication.]

[Footnote 159: Mrs. Whiteway to Lord Orrery.]

[Footnote 160: Pope to Caryll, Feb. 3, 1729. Pope to Swift, March 23,
1737.]

[Footnote 161: To Lord Orrery, March, 1737. "His humanity, his charity,
his condescension, his candour are equal to his wit, and require as good
and true a taste to be equally valued. When all this must die, I would
gladly have been the recorder of so great a part of it as shines in his
letters to me, and of which my own are but as so many
acknowledgements."]

[Footnote 162: Pope to Nugent, August 14, 1740.]

[Footnote 163: The statement is recorded by Dr. Birch in his Journal,
May 14, 1751. He received the information from Dr. Heberden, who was
then attending Lord Bolingbroke in his last illness.]

[Footnote 164: "All's Well that Ends Well." Act II. Scene 2.]

[Footnote 165: In September, 1725, Arbuthnot had an illness which was
expected to prove mortal. Pope, in announcing his recovery to Swift on
October 15, added, "He goes abroad again, and is more cheerful than even
health can make a man." He meant that Arbuthnot was able to go about
again, which was still one of the commonest significations of the
phrase. Arbuthnot did not leave England, and from his letter to Swift on
October 17, it is clear that he had never entertained the design.]

[Footnote 166: Roscoe dated the letter 1726. Without recapitulating the
circumstances, which are fatal to the conjecture, it is enough to say
that on September 10, 1726, Pope was unable to hold a pen, owing to the
injury he had received a day or two before when he was upset in
Bolingbroke's carriage. It was several weeks before he recovered the use
of his hand. In the case of Digby there is the additional difficulty
that as the nurse did not die till after September, 1725, so he himself
was dead before September, 1726.]

[Footnote 167: I did not discover the letters of Wycherley at Longleat
till after his correspondence with Pope had been printed off.]

[Footnote 168: "Notes and Queries," No. 260, p. 485.]

[Footnote 169: Oxford MSS.]

[Footnote 170: Oxford MSS.]