[86] Letter, Jan. 15.
[87] See this confirmed, Gent. Mag. vol. lvii. 1140. N.
[88] The author preferred this title to that of London and Bristol compared; which, when he began the piece, he intended to prefix to it. Dr. J.
[89] This friend was Mr. Cave, the printer. N.
[90] Mr. Strong, of the post-office. N.
[91] See Gent. Mag. vol. lvii. 1040. N.
[92] Mr. Pope. See some extracts of letters from that gentleman to and concerning Mr. Savage, in Ruffhead’s Life of Pope, p. 502. R.
[93] Mr. Sheridan, in his Life of Swift, observes, that this account was really written by the dean, and now exists in his own handwriting in the library of Dublin college. R.
[94] Spence’s Anecdotes, vol. ii. p. 273.
[95] The words speciali gratia, or per specialem gratium, were used in the record of his degree in the college of Dublin; but were never entered in any testimonium, which merely states the fact of a degree having been taken, and, therefore, the account that they were omitted as a favour to Swift is incorrect.