Notes.
INEDITED POEM BY POPE.
In an original letter from James Boaden to Northcote the artist, I find the following passage; and I add to it the verses to which allusion is therein made:
"60. Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
"28th August, 1827.
"My dear friend,
"The verses annexed are so fine, that you should put them into your copy of Pope, among the Miscellanies. Dr. Warburton received them too late for his edition of our poet, and I find them only in a letter from the prelate to Dr. Hurd, dated 'Prior Park, June 24th, 1765.'
"I have used the freedom to mark a few of the finest touches with a pencil, to show you my feeling. These you can rub out easily, and afterwards indulge your own. The style of interrogation seems to have revived in Gray's Elegy. Hurd would send the verses to Mason as soon as he got them; and Mason and Gray, as you know, were one in all their studies.
"I do not forget the Fables.
"Yours, my dear friend, always,
"J. Boaden.