2253 [Transcript] HINTS WRITTEN AT THE DESIRE OF DR. F. AND OF HIS FRIEND, [by Sir William Temple, 1694.] Nine leaves, 18.5 x15cm. Disbound. Text sixteen pages, headed 'Sect, I', starting immediately below the title; Sections 2, 3, 4 of the original MS are missing; Section 5 begins on the ninth page, and Section 6 on the thirteenth. Above the title is noted, in a nineteenth century hand, 'See Sr Wm Temple's Works [1770] Vol. 3. p. 471. This MS is in the handwriting of Dr Jonn Swift.' The Hints are accompanied by a separate note (two leaves 14x9.5cm.) in an unidentified eighteenth-century handwriting, headed 'A Fragment upon ye Subject of Ant & Mod. Learning', explaining ' the Occasion of writting this Fragment'. William Wotton's Reflections on Temple's Essay on Ancient and Modern Learning was published in 1694. Temple at first refused to reply to it, but when some months later 'Dr. Fullham acquainted him, that Mr. H, a Friend of his at Oxford, had taken the pains to write a full answer...But before he call it into method he desired Sr W. T. would give him some hints', he was 'prevayld upon to write the following papers which were done at 6 severall sittings of about 2 hours at a time and made ye 6 sections whereinto they are divided….' The Hints did not fit into Mr H's draft and the project was dropped until Wotton issued a second edition (1697) to which was added an essay by Bentley on the Letters of Phalaris, when the 'Author of these earlyest Papers has been at last content they should take their fortune abroad', and they were written up as Some Thoughts upon Reviewing the Essay of Ancient and Modern Learning. Provenance: Moor Park; Rev J. C. Longe (Sotheby 3 August 1934, Lot 1070. See note, p247).

2254 [From draft of PREFACE TO SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE'S WORKS.] [? 1699.] A single leaf, 18x15cm. Twenty lines written on the recto, four on the verso, the whole crossed through. Notes. Sir William Temple died in 1699, and Swift, who had been his secretary, edited and published his manuscripts in three volumes of Letters (Vols. I and II, 1700, see No. 2401; Vol. Ill, 1703, not in this Library), Miscellanea, The Third Part (see No. 2405), and Memoirs Part III, 1709 (see No. 2407). Provenance: Moor Park; Rev. J. C. Longe (Sotheby, 3 August 1934, Lot 1071. See note, p. 247).

2257 [Transcript in the handwriting of Charles Ford.] VANBRUGG'S HOUSE BUILT FROM THE BURNT RUINS OF WHITE­HALL [1703.]
Two leaves, 15x12cm. Text three pages, starting immediately below the title. Bibliography. H. Williams (Poems) I, p. 78; Nichol Smith (Letters of Swift to Ford), p. 179. Provenance. Ford Collection (see No. 2282).

2258 (i) ACCOUNT OF MY LIVINGS FOR 1703. (ii) ACCOUNT OF EXPENCES From Novbr Ist 1703 to No Novbr 1st Nineteen leaves, 15x10cm. Disbound. (i) Title-page, verso blank; details of receipts inscribed on the verso of the second, fourth, fifth and sixth leaves, facing details of payments on the recto of the third, fifth, sixth and seventh leaves, the remaining pages of these leaves blank; four blank leaves. (ii) The second part of the accounts, on seven leaves, starts at the reverse end. Title-page; on the verso five lines of notes recording visits made or received, 23 July 1704 to 2 December 1705; four leaves, containing seven pages of expenses, followed by a blank page; two leaves containing three pages of expenses followed by a blank page; one leaf 'Totalls of a Year. . .' on the recto, verso blank.

2259 RECEIPT to Benjamin Tooke for £40 in full payment of the third Part of Sir William Temple's Memoirs; dated 'Apr. 14. 1709'. A single leaf, 14x9cm., written on one side. Ball I, p.150.

2260 ATLAS, writt. 1712. To the Earl Oxford Two leaves, 21x16cm. Text, starting immediately below the tide, occupies the recto and one-third of the verso of the first leaf, and is followed by a note in Pope's handwriting: 'This is the Original, in Dr Swift's hand. A. Pope.'; the second leaf is blank, except for the title 'Atlas.' See Plate XXXVII a, b. Bibliography. H. Williams (Poems) I, p. 159. Notes. Atlas was first published in Motte's Miscellanies, The Last Volume, in 1727. The following differences between the MS and the printed version are noted: The subtitle in the printed version is amplified: Atlas: Or, the Minister of State. To the Lord Treasurer Oxford. lines 4, 5: MS: 'Porter', printed: 'Pedlar'. line 8: MS: 'some Friend', printed: 'a Friend'. line 12: MS: 'take his Rest', printed: 'sit and rest'. line 15: MS: 'All Statesmen', printed: 'Great Statesmen'.

2261 A DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE FEARS FROM THE PRETENDER. (Febr. 20) [?1713]. Two leaves, 19x15cm. Text on the right-hand half of the recto of the first leaf only. Notes. The Discourse was not completed, perhaps on account of the appearance in 1713 of three pamphlets on this theme by Harley's other scribe, Defoe (see No. 758). The text of this fragment was first printed in Letters of Swift to Ford, ed. Nichol Smith, p. 216, and reprinted by Davis, Prose Works, VIII, p. 69. Provenance: Ford Collection (see No. 2282).

2262 MEMORIAL ABOUT DR RAYMOND. 1713. Two leaves, 16x9cm. The Memorial is written on the recto of the first leaf, and endorsed on the verso of the second 'Memoriall about Dr Raymond. May. 5. 1713 Dr Prat & Dr Swift.' Ball II, p. 25. Note. Dr Anthony Raymond was Rector of Trim.

2264 AN ENQUIRY INTO THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE QUEEN'S LAST MINISTRY, 1715. (i) [Pages i & 2 in Esther Johnson s handwriting] An Enquiry into the Behavior of the Queen's Last Ministry, with Relation to their Quarrels among themselves, and the Design charged upon them of altering the Succession of the Crown Foul Copy. Twenty-eight foolscap leaves, c. 31x 18.5 to 32 x 20 cm., with four quarto leaves 20x15 to 21 x 16 cm. inserted after the second foolscap leaf. The above title, in Swift's hand, is on the recto of the first leaf, verso blank. The foolscap leaves, with text in the right-hand half on both sides, and corrections on the left, are paginated 1-54. The quarto leaves are written right across and paginated 1-8, p. 1 also bearing the instruction 'Ad. P. 3.' The text on foolscap pages 1 and 2 is in Esther Johnson's hand; the title repeated at the head of the left-hand column of p. 1, and the remainder of the MS, in Swift's. See Plate XXXVIII. (ii) [Transcript by an amanuensis, with Swift's autograph corrections. Drop-head title on p. i.] An Enquiry into the Behaviour of the Queen's last Ministry, with Relation to the Quarrells among themselves, and the Design charged upon them of altering the Success of the Crown. June—1715. Forty-two foolscap leaves, 31.5x 20cm. Text in the right-hand half on both sides of each leaf, paginated 1-84. There are a few corrections in Swift's hand in the left-hand margins, and on p. 51, below the cross-heading 'Cap. 2d.': 'Written above a year after.' There are notes in Mrs Whiteway's hand on pp. 67 and 68. These two MSS are separately bound in modern red morocco, by Riviere. Bibliography. Davis (Prose Works) VIII, p.129. Notes. In both MSS, numbers have been pencilled at some time in the lower left-hand corner of the recto of each leaf; in (ii) these numbers start with a '2', suggesting that there may originally have been a title-leaf, or covering leaf. The Enquiry was written in Dublin in 1715, but not published until 1765 in Vol. VIII (4to) and Vol. XV (8vo) of Deane Swift's edition of his cousin's Works. Provenance: Deane Swift; John Forster (ex Swift family c. 1860); John Murray (Forster's publisher); Sir John Murray, 1935.

2265 [THE BUBBLE.] To Charles Ford, dated at end, 'Decbr 15th 1720'. Two leaves, 30.5 x 19cm. Text, 2 and a half pages, in two columns, without title; below the poem is a letter of ten lines with the date, and a postscript. Addressed on the verso of the second leaf, 'To Charles Ford Esqr, at His Lodging at the blue Perewig in Pell-Mell [sic] London'. See Plate XXXIX. Bibliography. Nichol Smith {Letters of Swift to Ford), p.182; H. Williams (Poems) I, p. 248. Notes. The Bubble was first published in London on 3 January 1721, ' Printed for BENJ. TOOKE. . .and Sold by J. roberts . . . ' (see No. 2068). This MS was one of the collection described by Nichol Smith in Letters of Swift to Ford. When Mr (now Sir) Harold Williams and I inspected the collection in 1935, the condition of The Bubble caused us great concern, as it seemed possible that it was irreparably damaged by damp and neglect. I sent it to Messrs Rivière, who succeeded in effecting a most remarkable repair, by mounting the tattered leaves on fine gauze. R. Provenance: Ford Collection (see No. 2282).

2268 [Transcript in the handwriting of Charles Ford.] STELLA'S DISTRESS ON THE 3D FATAL DAY OF OCTOBR 1723. Two leaves, 23x18.5cm. Text starting immediately below the title, on verso of the first leaf and recto of the second. Bibliography. Nichol Smith (Letters of Swift to Ford), pp. 197-202; H. Williams (Poems) 11, p. 744. Notes. This transcript consists of two poems, the first of 22 lines, written as a fair copy; the second, 76 lines, divided from the first by a double rule and two lines of Latin quotation, has marginal additions and corrections. The two poems were printed together by Faulkner in 1735, revised and expanded, with the title Stella at Wood Park (Ford's house), and with the lines which form the first part of this transcript inserted following line 25 of the printed version. Two fair copies of the latter part of this transcript, also in Ford's hand, are now in the Pierpont Morgan Library. It was first printed in its original form by Davis (op. cit. p. 199) and reprinted by Williams (loc. cit.). Provenance: Ford Collection (see No. 2282).

2270 THE WHOLE INCOME OF THE MASTER OF THE SONG, for the Main-tenance of Six Choristers, in both Cathedrals. Febr. 4th. 1725-6. A single leaf, 30.5x19.1cm. Text one page. Unpublished. Notes. This document sets out the Master's yearly income from Christ Church and St Patrick's, totalling £120, of which for the past four years he had received only £111. 'This Income was settled on the Master of the Song near 60 years ago, and was then as valuable as twice that sum is now, yet the Present Master loseth 9¹¹ even of that sum. I do therefore recommend it to the Trustees for the Augmentation, to consider this matter.' Below his original signature Swift later added a note, also signed: 'This affair was settled by the Trustees to the satisfaction of the Deans Vicar, Master of the Song.' Provenance: (Sotheby, 10 February 1948, Lot 427.)*

2271 THE GRAND QUESTION DEBATED. Sepr 2d 1729 Eight leaves, 22.6x18.4cm, stitched, gilt edges. Title-page (upside-down to the text), verso blank; text eight pages, followed by three blank leaves. The title is repeated at the top of the recto of the second leaf, dated 'Sept 1728' [sic], with the subtitle 'Whether *Hamilton's bawn shall be turned into a Malt-house or a Barack' and a marginal note, '*A large old house two miles from Sr AAS seat.' Bibliography. H. Williams (Poems) III, p. 863. Notes. The printed versions of this poem vary. It first appeared in London in 1732, under the title A Soldier and a Scholar (see No. 2128), and later in the same year Faulkner published it in Dublin with the original title. This MS corresponds with the first Dublin edition, with the following exceptions:
Sub-title: Printed '...a Barrack or a Malt-House.'
line 6: The printed version has a footnote defining a Barrack, not present in the MS.
line 22: MS, 'And, whatever...'; printed 'Whatever...'.
line 131: Footnote: MS, '...in Armagh.'; printed, '...in the Neighbourhood.'
line 138: MS, 'peeps on'; printed, 'peeps at'.
line 150: MS, 'mending your gown'; printed, '...Cassock'.
line 152: MS, 'Jinny.'; printed, 'Jenny'.
line 159: The printed version has a footnote 'Ovids, Plutarchs, Homers.', not in the MS.
Minor variations in punctuation and spelling throughout. In Faulkner's 1735 edition four lines were added following line 166. 'Hamilton's Bawn' was on Sir Arthur Acheson's estate at Market Hill (now known as Gosford Castle), Armagh, where Swift spent three long visits during the years 1728–30. Provenance: (?) Rev. Matthew Pilkington; Bishop of Derry (? William Barnard, 1697-1768); Henry Dupuy (Sale, 18 January 1922, Lot 254); William Randolph Hearst (Sale Part 3, Parke Bernet, December 1938, Lot 266). When this MS was sold in 1922 it was accompanied by a written statement in the autograph of a previous owner, printed in the catalogue as follows:
'Original copy of Hamilton's Bawn in Swift's handwriting. Probably given to my grandfather the Bishop of Derry by Pilkington, the author of the Biographical Dictionary of Painters. His wife was one of Dean Swift's flirts. My reason for supposing so is that Pilkington used frequently to be a visitor at the Bishop's who was a great collector of pictures and used to like to hear Pilkington's opinion. (Signed) A.F.B.'

2272 [Transcript in the handwriting of Charles Ford.] DIRECTIONS FOR A BIRTH-DAY SONG Oct: 30. 1729. Six leaves, 18.5 x 11.5 cm., marbled paper wrappers. First leaf blank, text nine pages, starting immediately below the title, final page blank. Bibliography. Nichol Smith (Letters of Swift to Ford), p. 203; H. Williams (Poems) ii, p. 459. Notes. First printed by Deane Swift, 1765, Works, xvi. 30 October was George IIs birthday. Provenance: Ford Collection (see No. 2282).

2273 DOCUMENT PROMISING TO PAY JOHN WHITEWAY'S APPRENTICE-SHIP FEES, signed 'this fifteenth day of May 1736—six Jonath: Swift...in the presence of Roger Kendrick and Alexdr Croaders'. Two leaves, 21 x 13 cm., edged in black. Text on the recto of the first leaf only. Ball V, p. 334. Reproduced in Jonathan Swift, Dean and Pastor by R. W. Jackson, 1939. Provenance: William Mitchell of Ballymullen, Grogan, Leix, 1939.

2274 RECEIPT FOR TITHES. 'Mar. 8th 1738-9'. A single sheet, 11 x 9 cm. Text, one page.

2275 [Drop-head title:] DIRECTIONS TO POOR SERVANTS. Cap. 1. Directions to the Butler Fourteen leaves, 20 x 16 cm. Unbound. Text on both sides of the leaves, starting immediately below the title, paginated [1]-28. Pp.2-14 are headed 'Butler'; p.15 'Instructions to the Cook', and pp.16-23 'Cook'; p.[24] is blank; pp.25-8 'Footman'. Notes. Directions to Servants was published posthumously by Dodsley in London and Faulkner in Dublin, in 1745 (see Nos. 2178-2180). Hayward (Swift, Nonesuch Press, 1934, p. 596, writes as follows: 'Several copies of the manuscript of this curious work seem to have existed. A fragment of one, with some corrections in Swift's hand, is in the Forster Collection...' This MS, which varies considerably from the printed text, and from the transcript in the Forster Collection, was found among the papers of the 1st Earl of Normanton, b. 1736, who became Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland. The paper is the same as that used by Swift for his letters to Ford between 16 June 1724 and 14 August 1725. Provenance: 5th Earl of Normanton (Sotheby, 14 October 1946, Lot 310).

2277 TO THOMAS SWIFT, initialled. Dated from 'Moorpark. May 3d 1692' Two leaves, 20.5 x 16.5 cm. Text 3 and one third pages. Addressed in the centre of the verso of the second leaf: 'To Mr Swift, at Sr John Morgan's in Kinnersley, to be left with John Griffith in Wobbly [sic] Herefordshire June 5.' Ball I, p. 361. Provenance: Below the address is a note in an eighteenth-century hand: 'Swift's lettr from Mrs Cathral's Papers.' Mrs More-Molyneux, Loseley House, Surrey, 1937.

2278 TO THOMAS SWIFT, signed. Dated 'Decbr 6th 1693'. Two leaves,19 x 15 cm. Text three pages. Addressed on the verso of the second leaf: 'For Mr Swift at Dr D'avenant's—in Red-lyon Square near Holborn London.' Ball I, p. 367. Provenance: Mrs More-Molyneux, Loseley House, Surrey, 1937.

2279 TO THE REV. JOHN WINDER, signed. Dated from 'More Park Janry 13th 1698 [i.e. 1699]. Two leaves, 21 x 16 cm. Text three pages, addressed on the verso of the second leaf: 'For the Reverend Mr Windar [sic] Prebendry of Kilroot; to be left at Belfast in the County of Antrim Ireland.' Ball I, p. 26. Note. Winder was a fellow-student of Swift's at Oxford in 1692, and his successor at Kilroot in 1697. Provenance: Walls Collection (see No. 2281).

2280 TO JOHN TEMPLE, signed. Dated from 'Dublin, June 15. 1706.' Two leaves, 16 x 20.5 cm. Text three pages with a postscript on the verso of the second leaf, which also bears the address 'For John Temple Esqr at his House at Morepark near Farnham in Surrey England'. The letter was folded in three and sealed with red wax. Ball 1, p. 55.

2281 TO THOMAS WALLS, Archdeacon of Achonry. Forty-six letters. Except where indicated in the table below, these letters are unsigned. Those marked with an asterisk were sent to Charles Ford for dispatch, and are addressed and endorsed by him. With three exceptions, these letters are on paper folded to form two leaves, ranging from 18 x 11 to 22 x 18 cm. Nos. 5, 20 and 32, each a single leaf, measure respectively 23 x 18, 23 x 17 and 20 x 16 cm.
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Provenance: Walls Collection, Sir John Murray, 1935

2282 TO CHARLES FORD. Forty-three letters, unsigned. The majority of these letters are written on paper folded to form two leaves, ranging in size from 15.5 x 10 cm. (No. 34) to 32.5 x 20 cm. (No. 28), subsequently (except Nos. 5, 12 and 28) folded for transmission and addressed on the verso of the second leaf. Nos. 6, 7, 8, 11, 15, 25, 26, 32, 35 and 41, each a single leaf, measure from 18.5 x 15 cm. (No. 7) to 32 x 19 cm. (No. 26); with the exception of No. 15 these also are folded and addressed for transmission. Separate covers accompany Nos. 5, 12 and 15, but it cannot be proved that these were the original envelopes (see note on No. 15; the slip accompanying No. 5 is postmarked 'IY [July] 20').
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Provenance: Sir John Hynde Cotton (d. 1752, Ford's executor); Miss Philadelphia Letitia Cotton; Mrs Rowley Smith of Shortgrove; Rev. J. J. Antrobus, 1935.

2283 TO AMBROSE PHILIPS, signed. Dated from 'London. Mar. 8th 17089. O.S.' Two leaves, 19.7x15.2cm. Text 2 and a half pages, addressed on the verso of the second leaf 'For Mr Philips, at Copenhagen', and endorsed in Philips's hand 'Jonathan Swift—1709—Resp. May. 21.' Notes. This letter has not previously been printed in its entirety. Ball (I, p. 141) prints part only, from a copy in the Forster Collection. The full text is as follows: London. Mar. 8* 17089 O.S. I give you Joy of all the difficultyes in your Journey, since they ended in a safe Arrivall; and I pity you the less, since Mr Molsworth told me of the present he made you of a warm Fur cap for Yr Head and Shoulders. I am sensible how mortal an Enemy cold is to Gentlemen of your thin Composition, You know Horaces Rule, dissolve frigus ligna super foco large reponens, and merum diota, which last, is a Receit I suppose Denmark may teach you. At worst, a good Reception and friendly Treatment, will remove the Clymate ten degrees southward. Your Dane of a refined Tast is somewhat Extraordinary, unless it be a Tast of Second Hand, but I desire, whoever admires or blames the Book, you will not think me to have any concern in the Matter, tho since People will inspight of my disarming suspect me for an Author, I cannot but be better pleased with those who think me so to my Advantage—Your versifying in a Sledge seems somewhat parallell to singing a Psalm upon a Ladder, and when you tell me it was upon the Sea, I suppose it might be a Pastorall, and that you had got a Calenture, which makes men think they behold green Feelds, and Groves on the Ocean. I suppose the Subject was Love, and then came in naturally your burning in so much cold, and that the Ice was hott Iron in comparison of her disdain. Then there are frozen Hearts, and melting Sighs, or Kisses, I forget which, But I believe your Poeticall Faith could never arrive at allowing that Venus was born on the Belts or any Part of the Northern Sea.-Treve des bagatelles. This same Mistress of yrs is a very usefull Amusement takes all your Passions by turns and putts them into Motion, which may not be amiss in a cold Clymate; therefore I hope she will step once more to France and ply you with a Rival or two while Winter lasts. As to what you enquire about me, I can only tell you that Ld Berkeley has at last refused going to Vienna, wherein all his Friends think him in the Right, and my self among the rest; so that the Peace with the Hungarian Rebels is like to be made without me; Let the Emperor look to it. I shall return to Ireland in Summer and have desired Mr Steel to take care of any Letters you will please to send me: therefore pray direct them to Him, who shall know my Address. This is onely meant as long as you shall think fitt to keep up the Humor of remembering absent Friends especially of so short a standing, and so little Use as I. Mr Addison will go for Ireland in a Month. Collonell Froud has received yr Lettr, and His Lady commended me this day to give you her Service, and began Yr Health to me. Mr Addison and I drink it often; He loves you very well, and you can hardly have a better Possession, upon every Account imaginable. You do not expect I shall send you News or Politicks, and if you did, you would be deceived; and therefore a Lettr from Ireld will be full as valuable as from hence. All your Friends here are well, and howvr transitory the rest of the world may be, St James Coffee house still continues as you left it. Dr King has reprinted all his Works together and the Volume begins with his Answer to Mr Molesworth's Book [word obliterated by Swift] of Denmark. Your Pastorals will appear at the head of the new Miscellany in a Month. Nic Row is with great difficulty coming in to be Secretary to the Duke of Queensbury, much against his Grace's Inclination. The Town is run mad after a new Opera. Poetry and good Sense are dwindling like Echo into Repetition and Voice. Critick Dennis vows to G— these Opera's will be ruin of the Nation and brings Examples from Antiquity to prove it. A good old Lady five miles out Town, askt me tother day, what these Uproars were that her Daughter was allways going to. I wish I had the Honr to be known to the Envoy, that I might end my Letter with desiring You to present my most humble Service to Him; It is so necessary a Part in the conclusion of an Epistle that I do not know how to supply it. His Brother that dyed last Year was my particular Friend. His Father is also of my Acquaintance, so that I seem to have some sort of Title—I am a scurvy Writer, and as I remember you are not very expert at reeding an ill Hand; which if I had thought on sooner I would have made mine a little worse, for now you are growing to be a Minister you mus learn to decypher. Lett me know if there are any Country houses of Men of Quality in Denmark; because I have a Notion that in all arbitrary Governments they are very scarce. I forgot you are a Man of Business, but you may read this Letter at three or four reprises you will break no Connection- I am Your most faithfull humble Servant J: Swift. Provenance: (? Puttick, 1857, see Ball 1, p. 141, n. 1.) 7th Duke of Newcastle (Clumber Library, Sotheby, 16 February 1938, Lot 1407).

2284 TO JOSEPH ADDISON, signed. Dated from 'Dublin. August 22 1710'. Two leaves, 22 x 17.5 cm. Text two pages, the second leaf blank. Ball 1, p. 187. Provenance: E. J. Tickell.

2285 TO JOSHUA DAWSON, signed. Dated from 'London Feb 11th 17 14/13' . A single leaf, 20.5 x 17 cm. Text on one side; on the verso is pasted the address 'To Joshua Dawson Esqr at the Castle of Dublin Ireland'. Ball 11, p. 126. Provenance: (Sotheby, 24 May 1938, Lot 559.)*

2286 TO LORD BOLINGBROKE, initialled. Dated from 'Dublin March 1st 17 15/14.' Two leaves, 22 x 17 cm. Text two pages, the second leaf blank. Unpublished. Notes. The letter recommends the bearer, Mr Howard, a Prebendary of Dublin, 'to your Favor and Protection, whether he finds you still at Paris... or already arrived at London…'. Swift com¬miserates with Bolingbroke on his exile, though expecting his early return: 'You have the Honor to be used ill with the best Men of the Kingdom….I have no Concern at present about you but with Relation to your Fortune. You and some others have convinced the World that a Man of Business may be a Man of Witt, but I will swear he ought not be a Philosopher too.... I know you can retire as gracefully as any man from six footmen and a gilt Chariot to Jonathan and your Cloak; but I pronounce whatever Court suffers it is not a Christian one….' Provenance: (Sotheby, 5 March 1934, Lot 201.)*

2287 (i) Autograph Letter FROM WILLIAM KING, Archbishop of Dublin, to Swift. Signed 'Wm Dublin' and dated from 'London Suffolk Street Novr 22 1716'.
(ii) DRAFT REPLY in Swift's handwriting, unsigned. Dated from 'Trim December ye 22d 1716'. Three leaves, 32 x 18 cm. Archbishop King's letter fills both sides of the first two leaves, and recto of the third. Swift's draft is on the verso of the third leaf. Ball II, p. 339 (Archbishop King's letter) and p. 348 (Swift's draft, as 16 December). Notes. Inscribed at the foot of Swift's draft, by a contemporary hand: '(This answer is printed in Swift's Works, 1766, Vol. XII. Lettr VIII. p. 122.)', and below, by another hand 'NB. The above seems a first sketch only, written in the hasty moment of Resentment, but never sent: as in his real answer to this Letter (wch is printed in Vol. VIV. No 36) it is much soften'd & the Dean continued in Friendship with Abp. King to the End of his Life, see King Correspond[ence] (ibid)'. Swift's draft is very different from the letter which he eventually sent to Archbishop King on the same date, 22 December 1716 (Ball II, p. 352); it is printed by Ball, from Sheridan's edition of Swift's Works, 1784, with the date 'December 16, 1716.' Provenance: (A.A.A., 1 February 1927. Lot 305.)

2288 TO ISAIAH PARVISOL, signed. [Undated: 1716.] Two leaves, 16 x 10 cm. Text on the recto of the first leaf, addressed on the verso of the second 'For Mr Parvisol'. Inscribed also on the verso of the second leaf, in an eighteenth-century hand, 'Dr Swift 1716'. Ball II, p. 405. Provenance: Walls Collection (see Note, No. 2281).

2289 TO SIR THOMAS HANMER, signed. Dated from 'Dublin Ocbr 1st 1720'. Two leaves, 20 x 16 cm. Text 2 and a half pages. Addressed on the verso of the second leaf 'To the Honorable Sr Thomas Hanmer, Bart, at his House in the Pell-mell [sic] London'. Ball III, p. 64.

2290 TO LORD CARTERET, signed. Dated from 'Dublin. Sepbr 4th 1724'. Two leaves, 23 x 18 cm. Text four pages. Ball III, p. 211. Provenance: (Hodgson, 24 November 1938, Lot 148.)

2291 TO MRS. PRATT. Draft, or final page, of the postscript of a letter, dated 18 March 1724-5, unsigned. A single leaf, 22.5 x 18 cm. Text on one side, addressed on the verso 'To Mrs Prat'. Ball (III, p. 233) prints a slightly variant text from Sheridan's edition of Swift's Works.

2293 TO LADY WORSELEY, signed. Dated from 'Dublin. May 11th 1731.' Two leaves, 20 x 16 cm. Text 2 and a half pages, verso of the second leaf blank. Ball IV, p. 222.

2294 TO THE REV. JOHN WINDER, unsigned. Dated from 'Dublin. Feb. 19th 1731-32'. Two leaves, 18 x 15.5 cm. Text two pages, addressed on the verso of the second leaf 'To the Reverend Mr Winder at Belfast'. Ball IV, p. 281. Provenance: Sir John Murray, 1935.

2295 TO BENJAMIN MOTTE, signed. Dated on p. 1 from 'Dublin. Nov. 4th 1732', and at the end 'Janr 9th 1732.' Two leaves, 18.5x 15 cm. Text 3.5 pages, addressed below and at right angles to the text on p. 4, 'To Mr Motte'. Ball IV, p. 359.

2296 TO EATON STANNARD, signed. Dated from 'Deanry-house Apr. 11th 1735.' Two leaves, 18.5 x 15 cm, with accompanying cover leaf. Text 1.5 pages, second leaf blank; addressed on the cover leaf 'To Eaton Stannard Esq Recorder of the City of Dublin'. Ball V, p. 159. Provenance: A. J. Maley (see Ball); Alfred Morrison (Sale Part III, 10 December 1918, Lot 2609, to Potter, £30); G. W. Panter (Sotheby, 15 July 1929, Lot 54).

2297 TO THEOPHILUS HARRISON, signed. Dated from 'Deanry-house March 25th 1735'. Two leaves, 13 x 9 cm. Text two pages, addressed on the verso of the second leaf 'To Mr Harrison'. Unpublished. Note. This letter accompanied a gift of 'three large Volumes of Galen's Works of the best translation into Latin. . .'. Provenance: Henry Purdon of Huntingdon, Killnean, with his inscription on the recto of the second leaf, recording the date of 'finding' the letter, 1819, followed by the names of two 'Members of West Meath' in that year, Gustavus Rochfort and Hercules R. Pakenham.

2299 [TO THE REV. JAMES KING], signed. Dated from 'Deanry-house Octb 1735'. Two leaves, 14.5 x 9cm. Text one page. Ball v, p. 255. Notes. In the catalogues of the Sotheby sales of 1918 and 1948, to which reference is made below, this letter was described as addressed to Alderman Barber; this mistake probably arose because in the the 1918 sale it was included with a group of letters addressed to Barber. In the opinion of Sir Harold Williams it can safely be assumed to be addressed to King, on whose name Swift punned in it: 'I dine like a King, always alone.' Provenance: Mrs King, Proby Park, Dalkey, Co. Dublin: Alfred Morrison (Sale Part III, Sotheby, 10 December 1918, Lot 2084, to Maggs); W. Marchbank (Sotheby, 20 December 1948, Lot 245). ENDORSEMENT on a letter from Lady Elisabeth Germain 27 May 1735. See No. 932.

2300 TO JOHN NICHOLS, signed. 'Dated at Mrs Whiteway s house. Jun. 25th 1736'. Two leaves, 14.5 x 9 cm. Text two pages, addressed 'To Mr Nicholls' on the verso of the second leaf. Ball v, p. 355. Note. Nichols was a surgeon, and is mentioned in Swift's will. Provenance: Alfred Morrison (Sotheby, 16 April 1918, Lot 1127, to Maggs, £33); G. W. Panter (Sotheby, 15 July 1959, Lot 57)-

2301 TO WILLIAM RICHARDSON, signed. Dated 'Apr. 9th 1737'. Two leaves, 18 x 15cm. Text two pages, the second leaf blank. Ball VI, p. 8. Note on a letter from Katharine Richardson, 10 January 1738. See No. 1743. Ball VI, p. 59.

2302 TO WILLIAM RICHARDSON, signed. [Undated. ? 5 August 1738.] Two leaves, 19.5 x 15cm. Swift's letter fills two-thirds of the recto of the first leaf, and is immediately followed by a letter in Mrs Whiteway's handwriting (unsigned), which breaks off at the bottom of the verso of the second leaf, and was evidently completed on a leaf now missing. Ball VI, pp. 90, 96. Notes. Ball reprints Swift's letter from Berkeley's Literary Relics, with the date 5 August 1738. The letter from Mrs Whiteway which he prints in association with it is not the one in this manuscript, which is undated. The present Whiteway letter Ball reprints from Nichols's Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, 1803, with the date, 16 September 1738, and the missing part of the final paragraph. Provenance: (Hodgson, 28 June 1940, Lot 282.)

2303 TO WILLIAM RICHARDSON, part of a letter, unsigned. 1739. Two leaves, 18.5 x 15cm. Swift's opening paragraph fills two-thirds of the recto of the first leaf, breaks off in the middle of a sentence, and is immediately continued by a letter in Mrs Whiteway's handwriting, signed at the foot of the recto of the second leaf; addressed on the verso of the second leaf, ' To Willm Richardson Esqr', and endorsed, presumably by Richardson, ' 17 April 1739 Doctr Swift & Mrs Whiteway'. Ball VI, p. 120. Provenance: Lady Harty (Sotheby, 18 December 1929, Lot 659).

2304 TO LADY BERESFORD, signed. [Undated.] Two leaves, 16 x 10.5cm. Text one page, addressed on the verso of the second leaf, 'For the Honorable the Lady Beresford'. [? Wife of Sir Tristram Beresford, Bt.] Unpublished. Notes. In this letter Swift proposed himself to dine: 'I lay last night in yr Ladyships Neighborhood on purpose to dine with you today in my way to Dublin. . .'. At end, 'Tuesday morn.' Provenance: Milton Brodie, with accompanying note 'given me by Miss Beresford' signed and dated 1826; (Sotheby, 22 February 1938, Lot 649)*.