PORTRAIT OF POPE'S MOTHER. Drawing taken by RICHARDSON, in the possession of EDWARD CHENEY, Esq.

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FROM THE LUCRARY OF
ERNEST LEWIS GAY
JUNE 15, 1927

BRADBURY, AGNEW, & Co. LD., PRINTERS,

LONDON AND TONBRIDGE.

CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME OF CORRESPONDENCE.

An asterisk is prefixed to the letters which, either in whole or in part, are not
in the edition of Roscoe.

friendship will be lasting.

3. He is still absorbed in his translation. Their

4. Jervas to Pope. Addison undertakes to be-
friend Pope. Homer's head.

5. Pope to Jervas. Regrets at Oxford for the
queen's death. His regard for Addison.
Attempt of Philips to set them at variance.
Pope declines the proffered kindness till Addi-
son has a juster opinion of him. His obliga-
tions to Swift. His detestation of party
*6. Jervas to Pope. Engraving of Homer's head.
Subscriptions to Tickell's Lucan

7. Pope's Farewell to London. His old sword.

Subscribers to the Iliad. Tickell's translation

of the first book

*8. Subscribers to the Iliad.

committee to enquire into the conduct of the

late ministry. Bolingbroke the hero of Pope's

preface to the Iliad

LETTER.

9. Pope to Jervas. Replies to the charge that

Bolingbroke is his hero. Progress of his trans-

lation. Enquires what is said of Tickell's first

book

*10. Jervas to Pope. Project for a journey on horse-

back to Bath. Vertue's engraving of Kneller's

portrait of George I. Fans for the Miss

Blounts

11. The projected journey. Flight of the Duke of

Ormond .

12. Arrangements for the journey to Bath. Pope's

bridle. Illness of Louis XIV.

13. Message to Pope from Lady M. W. Montagu

14. Pope to Jervas. The low state of poetry in

England. Begs Jervas to come back from

Ireland. Lord Burlington

15. Gay's verses on Blackmore

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16. Pope visits Dr. George Clarke at Oxford.
sure of portrait painting

*17. Directions to Jervas for distributing copies of

the Iliad, Vol. 3.

18. Pope's removal to Twickenham.

Longs for the return of Jervas.

Parnell, Rowe, and Garth

LETTER.

LETTERS BETWEEN POPE, BROOME, AND FENTON.

*1. Pope to Broome.

FROM 1714 TO 1736.

Apologises for his letters to
the Miss Marriots. Enquires what subscrip-
tions Broome has received for the Iliad. He
despises the world

*2. Asks Broome to get some of the colleges at
Cambridge to subscribe to the Iliad, and
requests him to translate notes from Eusta-
thius

*3. The plan to be followed in translating the notes
from Eustathius. Sends Vol. 1 of Eustathius Nov. 29, 1714
*4. Fears that Eustathius may have miscarried. He
is in want of the notes

*5. Approves the plan Broome has pursued in the
digest of Eustathius. Philip's Miscellany.
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