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LETTERS

O F

Mr. POPE,

AND

Several Eminent PERSONS,

From the YEAR 1705, to 1711.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed and fold by the Bookfellers of
London and Westminster.

M.D.CC.XXXV.

BODLEIAY

-3 JUN. 1.931

LIBRARY

BE

то THE

READER.

W

E prefume we want no Apology to the Reader for this Publication, but fome may be thought needful to Mr. Pope: However he cannot think our Offence fo great as Theirs, who first feparately publifhed, what we have here but collected in a better Form and Order. As for the Letters we have procur'd to be added, they ferve but to compleat, explain, and fometimes fet in a true light, thofe others, which it was not in the Writer's or Our power to recall.

The Letters to Mr. Wycherley were procured fome Years fince, on account of a furreptitious Edition of his Pofthumous Works: As thofe Letters fhewed the true ftate of that Cafe, the Publication of them was doing the best fuftice to the Memory of Mr. Wycherley.

The rest of this Collection hath been owing to feveral Cabinets; fome drawn from thence by Accidents, and others (even of thofe to Ladies) voluntarily given. It is to one of that Sex we are beholden for the whole Correfpondence with H. C. Efq, which Letters

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