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IV. In the fame flyle, to Mr. Gay and the Duchefs.

V. A frangé end of a law-fuit. His way of life,

&c. Poftfcript to the Duchefs.

VI. Two new pieces of the Dean's: Answer to his in-
vitation into England. Advice to write, &c.

VII. More on the fame fubjects.

A happy union

against corruption. Poftfcript to the Duke of
Q. and to the Duchefs.

his laft fables: His oeconomy

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VIII. Mr. Gay to Dr. Swift. His account of himself:
Poftfcript by
Mr. Pope, of their common ailments, and œcono◄
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IX. From Dr, Swift to Mr. Gay. Congratulation on

Mr. Gay's leaving the Court; Lord Cornbury's

refusal of a penfion: Character of Mr. Gay.

X. From the fame. Concerning the writing of fables:

Advice about oeconomy, and provifion for old

age; of inattention, &c. Poftfcript to the

Duchefs.

XI. From the fame to Mr. Gay, and a poftfcript to
the Duchefs, on various fubjects.

XII. From the fame, concerning the opening of letters
at the post-office. The encouragement given to
bad writers. Reasons for his not living in Eng-
land. Poftfcript to the Duchefs: her character;
raillery on the subject of Mr. Gay himself.

XIII. From Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. An account of
feveral little pieces or tracts published as his :
which were, or were not genuine?

XIV. From Mr. Pope and Dr. Arbuthnot to Dr.
Swift: On the fudden death of Mr. Gay.

XV. From Dr. Swift. On the fame fubject. Of Mr.

Pope's epifties, and particularly that on the use

of riches.

XVI. From Mr. Pope, on Mr. Gay: His care of his

memory and memory and writings; concerning

the Dean's and his own; and of feveral other

things.

XVII. More of Mr. Gay, his papers, and epitaph.
Of the fate of his own writings, and the purpose
of them. Invitation of the Dean to England.

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XVIII. From Dr. Swift. Of the paper called The
Life and character of Dr. Swift, Of Mr. Gay,
and the care of his paper. Of a libel against
Mr. Pope. Of the edition of the Dean's works
In Ireland, how printed.

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XIX. Of the Dean's Verfes, called a libel on Dr. D.
the Spurious character of him: Lord Bol's
writings: The indolence of great men in years.

XX. From Dr. Swift. On Mrs. Pope's death. Invi-

tation to Dublin. His own fituation there, and

XXII. Concern for his abfence. Of a libel against him.
Reflections on the behaviour of a worthless man.

XXIII. Melancholy circumstances of the feparation of
friends. Impertinence of false pretenders to their
friendship. Publishers of flight papers. Of the
Ejay on Man, and of the collection of the Dean's
works. · Poftfcript by Lord Bolingbroke, con-
cerning his metaphyfical work.

XXIV. From Dr. Swift. The answer. Of his own
amufements, the Effay on Man, and Lord B's

writings.

XXV. Of the pleasures of his converfation: Of Dr.

Arbuthnot's decay of health: Of the nature of

moral and philofophical writings.

XXVI. From Dr. Swift. On the death of friends.

LETTER

XXVII. From the fame. On the offence taken at their
writings. Of Mr. Pope's Letters.

of Dr. Rundle, Bifhop of Derry.

Character

XXVIII. Concerning the Earl of Peterborow, and
his death at Lifton. Charities of Dr. Swift.

XXIX. From Dr. Swift. Of writing letters: Severat
of the ancients writ them to publish. Of his own
letters. The care he fhall take of Mr. Pope's,
to prevent their being printed.

XXX. From Dr. Swift. On the death of friends.
What fort of popularity he has in Ireland.
Against the general corruption.

XXXI. From the fame. His kindness for Mr. P. and
his own infirm condition.

XXXII. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. His plan for the
fecond book of Ethic Epistles, of the extent and
limits of human reafon and Science; and what
retarded the execution of it. Of Lord B.'s
writings. New invitations to England,

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XXXIII. From Dr. Swift. His Refolution to preserve

Mr. Pope's Letters,
fal after his death.
in the Ethic Epiftles.
decays of age.

and leave them to his difpo-
His defire to be mentioned
Of the loss of friends, and

XXXIV. What sort of letters he now writes, and the
contraction of his correspondence. Of the human
failings of great genius's, and the allowance to
be made them. His high opinion of Lord Boling-
broke and Dr. Swift as writers.

LETTER

XXXV. From Dr. Swift. Of old age, and death of
friends. More of the Ethic Epiftles.

XXXVI. Of the complaints of friends.

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beft comforts of old age. Some of his Letters
copied in Ireland, and printed.
Of Lord Bo
lingbroke's retirement. Of fome new friends,
and of what fort they are.

XXXVII. The prefent circumstances of his life and
his companions. Wishes that the last part of
their days might be paffed together.

XXXVIII. From Dr. Swift. Reasons that obftruit
his coming to England. Defires to be remembered
in Mr. Pope's Epiftles. Many of Mr. Pope's
letters to him loft, and by what means.

XXXIX. From Dr. Swift. Mention again of the
chafm in the letters. Objections in Ireland to.
fome paffages in Mr. Pope's letters published in
England. The Dean's own opinion of them.

XL. From Dr. Swift. Of his declining state of health.
His opinion of Mr. Pope's Dialogue, intitled,
One Thousand Seven hundred and Thirty Eight."
The entire collection of his and Mr. Pope's letters,
for twenty years and upwards, found, and in
the hands of a lady, a worthy and judicious re-
lation of the Dean's. This a mistake; not in
hers; but in fome other fafe hands..

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