DEAR SIR, LETTER LXXII. FROM THE SAME. Thursday, eleven at night. I HAVE just now received yours, and indeed it is not my fault I have not seen you, having been hindered by business I could not help minding; but I will not fail seeing you on Sunday morning early, but must return to dinner, having a little company to dine with me that day. Do but excuse me till I see you, and I will satisfy you that I have not neglected you. As for Shakspear, Watts's brother died lately, which has hindered his business a little; but now things will go on better. Your, etc. SIR, LETTER LXXIII. TO MR. LINTOTT. PRAY send Mr. Broom the sheets of all the notes that are printed, that he may avoid the exceptions, etc. but I would not have the poetry sent, knowing the consequences of its being shewn about to every body before it's published, which I will not have done; nor, I suppose, would you. I am Your, etc. SIR, LETTER LXXIV. FROM MR. LINTOTT. June 10, 1715. You have Mr. Tickell's book to divert one hour.It is already condemned here, and the malice and juggle at Button's is the conversation of those who have spare moments from politics. Sir John Germain has his book. All your books are delivered pursuant to the directions, the middle of the week after you left us. The Princess is extremely pleased with her book. You shall have your folios preserved. Mr. Broom I have not heard from. Pray detain me not from publishing my own book, having delivered the greatest part of the sub scribers already upwards of four hundred. I designed to publish Monday sevennight. Pray interrupt me not with an errata. I doubt not the sale of Homer, if you do not disappoint me by delaying publication. Service to Mr. Gay. Your, etc. Lord Bolingbroke is impeached this night. The noise the report makes does me some present damage. SIR, LETTER LXXV. FROM THE SAME. June 22, 1715. THE hurry I have been in by the report from the Committee of Secrecy, to get it published, has prevented the publication of Homer for the present, till the noise be over; and those whom I expected to be very noisy on account of your translation, are buried in politics. Mr. Thornhill sent to me for his own book, which he paid for to you, as he says, and paid me eight guineas of the subscriptions of Sarah, Countess of Winchelsea. Mrs. Seymour. Berkley Seymour, Esq. Charles Frotherby, Esq. Mr. Harcourt and Lord Harcourt have had thirteen books to their house, ten of which were of the finest paper. I will observe your directions about Mr. Broome. The second volume of Homer shall be sent in a day or two. The project for printing the first book of Homer, with Mr. Dryden's, and Mr. Tickle's, and Mr. Manwarring's, together, is well thought of. I proposed it to Mr. Tonson, but it will not do. I will consider farther of it. The Duke of Ormond is to be impeached for high treason, and Earl of Stafford for high crimes and misdemeanors. May success attend your studies, is the hearty prayer of Yours, to command. LETTER LXXVI. MR. STEELE TO MR. LINTOTT. MR. LINTOTT, August 4, 1712. MR. ADDISON desired me to tell you, that he wholly disapproves the manner of treating Mr. Dennis in a little pamphlet by way of Dr. Norris's account. When he thinks fit to take notice of Mr. Dennis's objections to his writings3, he will do it in a way Mr. Dennis shall leave no just reason to complain of. But when the papers above-mentioned were offered to be communicated to him, he said he could not, either in honour or conscience, be privy to such a treatment, and was sorry to hear of it. I am, Your, etc. 2 Of the frenzy of Mr. John Den-. A narrative written by Mr. Pope. See his Letter to Mr. Addison of July 30, 1714. 3 Remarks upon Cato. LETTER LXXVII. MR. FENTON TO MR. LINTOTT. MR. LINTOTT, September 14, 1719. PRAY give my most humble service to Mr. Pope, and tell him, I beg the favour of him to let me know when he comes to town, what morning I shall wait on him at his lodging; for I walk out in a morning so often, that I may therewise lose an opportunity of of seeing him. Lib. xxii. ver. 132. The first part of Dacier's note is taken from Eustathius; but instead of Aurelius Victor and Dion, he quotes Herodotus, without mentioning the book he takes it from. Ver. 467. I cannot find that Eustathius assigns the same reasons that Mm. does, why Apollo and Neptune do not fight with one another. Your, etc. I will endeavour to find out the passage abovementioned in Herodotus. LETTER LXXVIII. FROM MR. FENTON. I HAVE received a specimen of the extracts from Eustathius but this week. The first gentleman who undertook the affair, grew weary, and now Mr. Thirlby, of Jesus, has recommended another to me |