[123] The second edition of the octavo has a few more notes than the first edition. To distinguish it I have quoted it by the title of Cooper 1737, from the name of the publisher. I had not seen the first edition of the octavo till after Vol. I. of the Correspondence was printed, and I have erroneously stated of one or two letters that they originally appeared in the Cooper edition of 1737 which had not any new letters.
[124] De Quincey, Works, Vol. xv. p. 132.
[125] Works, Vol. vii. p. 66.
[126] Carruthers, Life of Pope, p. 442.
[127] Warburton's Pope, Ed. 1753, Vol. IX. p. 111.
[128] Pope to Lord Orrery, March, 1737.
[129] Pope to Lord Orrery, March, 1737.
[130] It is among the papers of his friend Lord Bathurst. The letter is undated, and was published without any date by Curll. When Pope reproduced it in the quarto of 1737, he dated it August, 1723; and in the quarto of 1741 he changed the date to January, 1723, which must be incorrect, since Bolingbroke was then abroad, and did not return to England till June. Swift's reply is dated September 20, and as it was between this period and June that the joint letter must have been written, August is either the true date, or a close approximation to it.
[131] Pope to Lord Orrery, March, 1737.
[132] Mrs. Whiteway to Lord Orrery.