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[2nd s. No 36., Skpt. 6. '56. 



visited at Tusmore. The poem, as the poem itself 

 certifies, was suggested by Caryll, a friend to the 

 parties, in the hope of reconciling them. It was 

 struck off at a heat, as Pope told Spence. Pope 

 certainly, at the time it was written, did not know 

 Lord Petrie ; and the presentation copies to both 

 Lord Petrie and Mrs. Fermor were forwarded 

 through Mr. Bedingfield. Bedingfield's letter to 

 Pope on this subject is still preserved amongst the 

 Homer MSS. in the British Museum. Here is 

 an extract. The writer was suffering from the 

 gout, and obliged to be brief: — 



" Gray Inn, May 26th, 1712. 

 " S"", Last night I had y« favour of y" of y« eleventh 

 Instant, and, according to yf directions therein, I have 

 enclosed the copy for Lord Petre and for Mrs. Belle Fer- 

 mor ; she is out of Towne, and therefore all I can do is to 

 leave her pacquet at her lodging . . . ." 



R. O. L. 



Pope and Warhurton. — In the correspondence 

 which took place in 1854, C. suggested (1" S. x. 

 109.), that your correspondents shoixld "look out 

 sharply for any set, or even odd volumes, which 

 couM have belonged to the edition that Pope and 

 Warburton were preparing." I therefore trouble 

 you with this communication. About the publi- 

 cation of The Dunciad, prepared for that edition, 

 there can be no doubt. You refer to it in your 

 Notes (1" S. X. 519.), and .you quote the an- 

 nouncement on the back of the title-page : 



" Speedily will be published, in the same paper and 

 character, to be bound up with this [copy of The Dun- 

 ciad]. The Essay on Man, The Essay on Criticism, and 

 the rest of the author's original Poems, with the Com- 

 mentaries and Notes of VV. Warburton, M.A." 



I suspect that the question raised relates to an 

 edition of " the rest of the author's original Poems ;" 

 but I think it right to inform you that I lately 

 purchased a quarto volume, containing a copy of 

 *' The Dunciad, Sfc, 1 743 ; An Essay on Man, being 

 the First Book of Ethic Epistles to H. St. John 

 L. BoUnghroke. With the Commentary and Notes 

 of W. Warburton, A.M. London, printed by W. 

 Bowyer, for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater- 

 noster-row, MDCcxLiii."; and '•'■ An Essay on Criti- 

 cism. Written in the year mdccix. With the Com- 

 mentary and Notes of W. Warburton, A.M." 



These several works have each a separate 

 paging, but are " in the same paper and cha- 

 racter." The volume is in the original binding, 

 and lettered " Pope's Dunciad, Essay on Man and 

 Criticism." P. A. W. 



Pope at Cambridge. — Johnson, in his Life of 

 Broome, says that Broome was introduced to Pope 

 when Pope was on a visit to Sir John Cotton's, at 

 Madingley, near Cambridge, and gained so much 

 of his esteem that he was employed to make ex- 

 tracts from Eustathius for the notes to the Iliad, 



This meeting at Sir John Cotton's must therefore 

 have taken place in or before, say, 1720. It is 

 not probable that Pope would have been at Mad- 

 ingley without visiting Cambridge. Is there any 

 evidence that he was at Cambridge at or about 

 that time, or at any time ? Camb. 



Epigram on the Frontispiece to " The Dunciad." 

 — I found the following epigram on a fly-leaf of 

 The Dunciad, 8vo. edition, 1729. The copyist 

 states that it appeared in The Daily Gazetteer, 

 about Dec. 18, 1738: 

 " Pallas for Wisdom priz'd her favorite Owl, 

 Pope for its Dulness chose the self-same Fowl : 

 Which shall we choose, or which shall we despise, 

 If Pope is witty, Pallas is not wise." 



P. D. 



INEDITED LETTER FROM DEAN SWIFT — ON THE 

 DEATH or MRS. LONG. 



I enclose you a copy of an unpublished letter of Dean 

 Swift. I do not find Ann Long mentioned in the pedigree 

 of Long of Westminster given in Burke's Extinct Baro- 

 netcies. Does it appear that the Dean carried out his in- 

 tention of erecting a monument in Lynn church to his 

 friend's memory ? J. P. 



Stamford. 



To the Rev. Mr. Pyle, Minister of Lynn, 

 Norfolk. 



Sir, London, Dec. 26, 1711. 



That you may not be surprised with a letter 

 from a person utterly unknown to you, I will im- 

 mediately tell you the occasion of it. The Lady 

 who lived near two years in your neighbourhood, 

 and whom you were so kind sometimes to visit, 

 under the name of Mrs. Smith, was Ann Long, 

 sister to S"^ James Long and niece to Colonel 

 Strangeways. She was of as good a private family 

 as most in JEngland, and had every valuable quality 

 both of body and mind that could make a lady 

 loved and esteemed. Accordingly she was always 

 valued here above most of her sex, and by the 

 most distinguished persons ; but by the unkind- 

 ness of her friends and generosity of her own 

 nature, and depending on the death of a very old 

 Grandmother which did not happen till it was too 

 late, she contracted some debts that made her un- 

 easy here, and in order to clear them was content 

 to retire to your Town, where I fear her death was 

 hastened by melancholy, and perhaps for want of 

 such assistance as she might have had here. 



I thought fit to signify this to you, partly to lett 

 you know how valuable a person you have lost, but 

 chiefly to desire that you will bury her in some 

 part of your church, near a wall where a plain 

 marble stone may be fixt, as a poor monument for 

 one who deserved so well, and which, if God sends 

 me life, I intend one day to place there, if no other 

 of her friends will think fitt to do it. 



