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XII. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. Serious effects produced by the

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XIV. Mr. Pope to Mr. Congreve. On his own temper; his feelings on the publication of Homer

XV. The same to the same.

On Gay's What-d'ye-call-it; on
Sir Richard Steele's political conduct .

XVI. Mr. Gay and Mr. Pope to Mr. Congreve. Character of Mr. Titcomb; Pope's Homer; Key to the What-dyecall-it; Pope lives like a rake

XVII. Mr. Pope and Mr. Gay to Dr. Parnelle. The life of Zoilus; new publications; proposal to meet at Bath 30 XVIII. Mr. Jervas, Dr. Arbuthnot, and Mr. Pope to Dr. Parnelle. Jervas's pictures; Parnelle's translations; Gay's Trivia; Battle of the Frogs and Mice

XIX. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. Anxiety for the fate of his great
political friends; criticism on Pope's Homer; account
of his household .

XX. Dr. Parnelle to Mr. Pope. Life of Zoilus Tickell's
Homer, mistakes in it

XXI. Dr. Berkley to Mr. Pope. Opinions on Pope's Homer
XXII. Mr. Gay to Mr. Pope. The same subject

XXIII. Dr. Arbuthnot to Mr. Pope. On Tickell's Homer
XXIV. Mr. Gay to Mr. Pope. The Three Hours after Marriage
damned on the representation

XXV. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. A scandalous imitation of one of
the Psalms of David imputed to him; Churches of
Rome and of England

XXVI. Mr. Pope to Dr. Parnelle. Complains of his silence; in-
vitation to accompany Dr. Swift to England
XXVII. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. Mr. Pope's politics; his enemies;
poisoning of Edmund Curll; Quaker verses; new
Pastorals

XXVIII. Mr. Pope to Dr. Parnelle. Remembrance of him; life of Zoilus; intends to publish his own poems

XXIX. Dean Berkley to Mr. Pope, from Naples. Description of
the island Inarime; Salvini reading Pope's Homer
XXX. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. The death of his father. Com-
plains of Gay's silence .
XXXI. Mr. Gay to Mr. Fortescue. Account of the Death of
John Hewet and Sarah Drew by lightning, at Stanton-
Harcourt. (The same circumstance is related by Pope
to Miss Blount, and also to Lady Mary Wortley Mon-
tagu, nearly in the same terms.).

XXXII. Mr. Pope to Mr. Fenton. On Mr. Fenton's engaging to
reside with Mr. Craggs

XXXIII. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. Long letter containing Dr. Swift's political creed, in which he maintains his attachment to

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Whig principles, and defends his conduct to the Whigs
when his Tory friends were in power

(This letter Pope said he never received, nor did he

believe it was ever sent.)

XXXIV. Mr. Pope to Dr. Berkley. Invitation to Twickenham

XXXV. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. On Gay's illness, and his own

anxiety for his mother

XXXVI. The same to the same.

XXXVII. The same to the same.

XXXVIII. The same to the same.

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On the same subject
On the same subject
On great men; and on Gay's

intended visit to Tunbridge

XXXIX. The same to the same. Unfavourable state of his
health; his attachment to Gay, Arbuthnot, and
Congreve

XL. The same to the same. Remembrance to Mr. Con-
greve; Gay's corpulency; Atterbury in the Tower.

XLI. Mr. Gay to Dr. Swift. Attachment to Swift; disap-

pointed in favours from the great

XLII. Dr. Swift to Mr. Gay. Course of his life in Ireland
inquiries after his friend's reason why poets have such
ill success in making their court; advises Gay to get
a place under Government in Ireland

XLIII. Mr. Pope and Lord Bolingbroke to Dr. Swift. Remarks
on their mutual friends; results of Pope's experience;
his present state of mind; Bolingbroke's contrast of
his life with Pope's; picture of himself

XLIV. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. His unwillingness to write
letters; notions of friendship; his way of living
XLV. Dr. Arbuthnot to Dr. Swift. General commendation of
Swift; proposed cure for his vertigo; the spa; his
own complaints, and frame of mind
XLVI. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. Notice of Dr. Stopford;
Gulliver's Travels; invitation to England; Mrs.
Howard; sickness of Dr. Arbuthnot

XLVII. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. His employment; professions
of misanthropy: thanks Pope for the Odyssey; his
concern for Dr. Arbuthnot; Gay and Philips
XLVIII. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. Their old friends; recovery
of Dr. Arbuthnot; Gay, and his trust in Mrs.
Howard, improved mind of Lord Bolingbroke; in-
tended refutation of Rochefoucault's maxims; intima-
tion of the Dunciad.

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XLIX. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. His contempt of the world;
disclaims the imputation of misanthropy; approves

of Rochefoucault

L. Mr. Pope and Lord Bolingbroke to Dr. Swift. Pope's

resolution to pass by scribblers in silence; his enemies

and friends; Bolingbroke's character of Seneca ;

definition of man

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