PORTRAIT OF POPE'S MOTHER. From a drawing by RICHARDSON, in the possession of EDWARD CHENEY, Esq.

SEVERAL HUNDRED UNPUBLISHED LETTERS, AND OTHER
NEW MATERIALS,

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

3. He is still absorbed in his translation. Their

friendship will be lasting .

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.

Subscribers to the Iliad.

of the first book

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His old sword.

Tickell's translation

*8. Subscribers to the Iliad. The report of the

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.

Ormond

Flight of the Duke of

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

16. Pope visits Dr. George Clarke at Oxford. Cen-

sure of portrait painting

July 9, 1716

Nov. 14, 1716

*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.

*1. Pope to Broome. 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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