THE WORKS OF Alexander Pope Esq. VOLUME VII. CONTAINING THE FIRST of his LETTERS. LONDON, Printed for J. and P. KNAPTON in Ludgate-street. MDCCLII. PREFACE Of the Publisher of the Surreptitious Edition, 1735. E presume we want no apology to the reader for this publication, but some may be thought needful to Mr. Pope: however he cannot think our offence so great as theirs, who first feparately published what we have here but collected in a better form and order. As for the letters we have procured to be added, they ferve but to complete, explain, and sometimes fet in a true light, those others, which it was not in the writer's, or our power to recall. This collection hath been owing to feveral cabinets: Some drawn from thence by accidents, and others (even of those to ladies) voluntarily given. It is to one of that sex we are beholden for the whole correspondence with H. C. efq. which letters being lent her by that gentleman, she took the liberty to print; as appears by the following, VOL. VII. which a |