"About two miles from Greenwich, Kent,
Tuesday, August 12th, 1730.
"P.S. I wrote you a letter some months ago, in answer to one from you, about selling the house; but you never signified to me whether you received it. I have not the policy of assurance; I suppose my wife, or Hannah, may have it.
"Idem, D. F."
[101] Pope had collected this scandal from Savage, who says in the preface to his Author to be Let, "Had it not been an honester livelihood for Mr. Norton, (Daniel De Foe's son of love by a lady who vended oysters,) to have dealt in a fish-market, than to be dealing out the dialects of Billingsgate in the Flying Post?"
[102] The above-mentioned particulars were discovered by searching the books at Doctors Commons.
[103] Life and Errors, 239-240.
[104] In the preface to his Reformation.
[105] See the Present State of the War, and the necessity of an augmentation. And see his Commercial Papers in the Freeholder.
[106] Biog. Dict. vol. ii. p. 403. art. De Foe.
[107] Vol. iii. p. 436.