Letter CONTENTS I. MR. Pope to Mr. Gay. Inquiring after him, and desiring his correspondence II. The same to the same. On the real wants of IV. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. On his proficiency in V. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. Proposes to change his religion, and explains upon what terms VIII. Mr. Gay to Dr. Swift. Acknowledgment on IX. Dr. Arbuthnot to Mr. Pope. On the change in administration after the queen's death; 24 X. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. Welcome from Hano- ver; invites him to Bath to meet Dr. Par- XI. Mr. Pope to Dr. Parnelle. Entreating him to XII. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. Serious effects pro- XIII. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. Written in illness; XIV. Mr. Pope to Mr. Congreve. On his own tem- mer XV. The same to the same. On Gay's What-ď'ye- call-it; on Sir Richard Steele's political XVI. Mr. Gay and Mr. Pope to Mr. Congreve. Character of Mr. Tetcombe; Pope's Ho- nelle's translations; Gay's Trivia; Battle of the Frogs and Mice of his great political friends; criticism on Pope's Homer; account of his household XX. Dr. Parnelle to Mr. Pope. Life of Zoilus; XXV. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. A scandalous imi- tation of one of the Psalms of David im- XXVII. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. Mr. Pope's poli- tics; his enemies; poisoning of Edmund Curll; Quaker verses; new Pastorals XXIX. Dean Berkley to Mr. Pope, from Naples. Description of the island Inarime; Sal- XXXI. Mr. Gay to Mr. Fortescue. Account of the Death of John Hewet and Sarah Drew by lightning, at Stanton-Harcourt. (The 72 XXXIII. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. Long letter con- taining Dr. Swift's political creed, in which he maintains his attachment to Whig principles, and defends his con- duct to the Whigs when his Tory XXXIV. Mr. Pope to Dr. Berkley. Invitation to XXXV. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. On Gay's illness, XL. The same to the same. Remembrance to Mr. Congreve; Gay's corpulency; At- XLII. Dr. Swift to Mr. Gay. Course of his life in Ireland; inquiries after his friend's reason why poets have such ill success in making their court; advises Gay to |