A My Deare, LETTER XLI. FROM HIS MOTHER. Tuesday, 12 o'clock. LETTER from your fifter yuft now is come and gone, Mr. Mannock and Charls Rackitt, to take his leve of us, but being nothing in it doe not fend it. He will not faile to cole here on Friday morning, and take ceare to cearrie itt to Mr. Thomas Doncaster. He shall dine wone day with Mrs. Dune, in Duckestreet; but the day will be unfirton, foe I thinck you had better to fend itt to me. He will not faile to Your fifter is very Theres Mr. Blunt, of cole here, that is Mr. Mannock. well, but your brother is not. mapill Durom, is ded; the fame day that Mr. Inglefield died. My firvis to Mrs. Blunts, and all that ask of me. I hope to here from you, and that you are well, which is my dalye prayers; this, with my bleffing, I am, etc. It appears from manufcripts of Mr. POPE, that he occafionally indulged his affectionate and amiable mother in tranfcribing some part of his Iliad for the prefs; and the numerous corrections made in his own hand, fuffici ently fhew, that her mode of Spelling gave him more trouble than the fubfequent inaccuracy of his printers · The Daughter of Samuel Cooper. 2. original Drawing by I. Richardson Sen" at Shawberry Hill. Cadell & Davies, Strand, and the other Proprietors. May 1.1807. the numerous corrections made in pis own nunu, jujuts ently fhew, that her mode of Spelling gave him more trouble than the fubfequent inaccuracy of his printers · The n'an MRS POPE. Daughter of Samuel Cooper, Painter : and Mother of Alexander Pope. vriginal Drawing by I. Richardson. Sen at Shawberry Hill. Published by Cadell & Davies, Strand, and the other Proprietors. May 1.1807. |