To Mr. Motte,

From Mrs. Pendarves,

To Mrs. Whiteway,

From the Same,

From an Unknown Lady,

From Lady Betty Germain,

To Mrs. Whiteway,

From Mrs. Sican,

From Mrs. Whiteway,

To the Same, .

From the Same,

To the Same,

From Mr. Pulteney,

From Mrs. Whiteway,

To the Same,

From the Same,

From the Same,

To the Same,

To the Duke of Dorset,

From the Earl of Orrery,

From Mrs. Pendarves,

To Mr. Faulkner,

From Dr. Sheridan,

To Mr. Pope,

From Lady Betty Germain,

To Mrs. Whiteway,

From the Bishop of Kilmore, .

To Miss Harrison,

From Dr. Sheridan,

To Mrs. Whiteway,

From Dr. Sheridan,

From Mr. Carter,

From Mr. Pope,

From Dr. Sheridan,

Dr. Sheridan to Mrs. Alba Via,

From Dr. Sheridan,

From Mrs. Pendarves,

To Mr. Pope,

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347

348

351

353

356

357

359

From Dr. Sheridan to Dr. Swift and Mrs. Whiteway,

To Dr. Sheridan,

To Mr. Benjamin Motte,

426

429

432

435

To the Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin,

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SWIFT'S

EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE.

LETTERS

FROM MAY 19, 1732, TO OCTOBER 23, 1736.

VOL. XVIII.

A

DEAR SIR,

London, May 19, 1732. O-MORROW we set out for Amesbury, where I propose to follow your advice, of employing myself about some work against next winter. You seemed not

to approve of my writing more fables. Those I am now writing, have a prefatory discourse before each of them, by way of epistle, and the morals of them mostly are of the political kind; which makes them run into a greater length, than those I have already published. I have already finished fifteen or sixteen; four or five more would make a volume of the same size as the first. Though this is a kind of writing that appears very easy, I find it is the most difficult of any that I ever undertook. After I have invented one fable, and finished it, I despair of finding out another; but I have a moral or two more, which I wish to write.