[Footnote 116: The words were introduced by the poet's friend and counsel Murray when he revised, or, in legal phrase, settled the bill. The rough draft submitted to him is among the papers of Mr. Cole, and the parallel passage only states that the letters written and received by Mr. Pope "having fallen into the hands of several booksellers, they thought fit to print a surreptitious edition," which did not preclude the supposition that one or more of the editions might be genuine. Whenever Pope, throughout the business, could use equivocal language he always selected it.] [Footnote 117: "Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence," 12mo. Vol. III. p. xii.] [Footnote 118: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 423, 447.] [Footnote 119: Vol. I. p. 1. He is speaking of Curll's reprint, which has no letters that were not in the original P. T. volume.] [Footnote 120: Pope to Swift, May 17, 1739.] [Footnote 121: Covent Garden Journal, No. 23, March 21, 1752.] [Footnote 122: Warton's Pope, Vol. I. p. lv.] [Footnote 123: The second edition of the octavo has a few more notes than the first edition. To distinguish it I have quoted it by the title of Cooper 1737, from the name of the publisher. I had not seen the first edition of the octavo till after Vol. I. of the Correspondence was printed, and I have erroneously stated of one or two letters that they originally appeared in the Cooper edition of 1737 which had not any new letters.] [Footnote 124: De Quincey, Works, Vol. xv. p. 132.] [Footnote 125: Works, Vol. vii. p. 66.] [Footnote 126: Carruthers, Life of Pope, p. 442.] [Footnote 127: Warburton's Pope, Ed. 1753, Vol. IX. p. 111.] [Footnote 128: Pope to Lord Orrery, March, 1737.] [Footnote 129: Pope to Lord Orrery, March, 1737.] [Footnote 130: It is among the papers of his friend Lord Bathurst. The letter is undated, and was published without any date by Curll. When Pope reproduced it in the quarto of 1737, he dated it August, 1723; and in the quarto of 1741 he changed the date to January, 1723, which must be incorrect, since Bolingbroke was then abroad, and did not return to England till June. Swift's reply is dated September 20, and as it was between this period and June that the joint letter must have been written, August is either the true date, or a close approximation to it.] [Footnote 131: Pope to Lord Orrery, March, 1737.] [Footnote 132: Mrs. Whiteway to Lord Orrery.] [Footnote 133: It is stated in a note to the Dublin edition of the collection of 1741 that the original of Bolingbroke's appendix had been discovered among Swift's papers since the publication of the letter by Curll.] [Footnote 134: Lord Orrery to Pope, Oct. 4, 1738.] [Footnote 135: Pope to Mr. Nugent, August 14, 1740. This letter was first published in the "Gentleman's Magazine" for August, 1849. It is printed, together with the other letters on the subject, among the Pope and Swift correspondence in this edition.]