LETTERS TO AND FROM MR. JERVAS, SIR GODFREY XI. From the same. On names and subscriptions received for Homer XII. From the same. On Dean Berkeley XIII. From the same to Mr. Jervas, in Ireland XV. To the same. Advising him to commence I. To Mr. Pope from his mother III. From the same to his brother IV. From the same to his sister V. From Mr. Tonson to Mr. Pope. to print one of the Pastorals XVI. From Mr. Evans posal for Homer XI. From the same. On account of subscription XII. Mr. Steele to Mr. Lintot. Concerning Mr. XXI. From Mr. Hughes to Mr. Pope. Concern- ing a prologue to the play of "The Siege XXIX. From Mr. Pitt, the translator of Virgil, to Mr. Spence. Concerning the publica- XXXI. Mr. Spence to the Rev. Mr. Pitt. Re- questing a copy of the "Verses on an XXXII. Mr. Pope to Mr. Holdsworth. Recommend- PREFACE TO THE FIRST GENUINE EDITION IN QUARTO, 1737. IF what is here offered to the reader should happen in any degree to please him, the thanks are not due to the author, but partly to his friends, and partly to his enemies; it was wholly owing to the affection of the former, that so many Letters, of which he never kept copies, were preserved; and to the malice of the latter, that they were produced in this manner. He had been very disagreeably used, in the publication of some letters written in his youth, which fell into the hands of a woman who printed them, without his, or his correspondent's consent, in 1727. This treatment, and the apprehension of more of the same kind, put him upon recalling as many as he could from those who he imagined had kept any. He was sorry to find the number so great, but immediately lessened it by burning three parts in four of them: the rest he spared, not in any preference of their style or writing, but merely as |