Wilson, Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, together with a pocket-book of Parnell’s, Dryden’s Limberham, corrected by himself, Pope’s Farewell to London, and several other papers found in the same drawer.[1] The Satire I have copied by Dr. Wilson s permission. It is in Pope’s handwriting, and I have followed closely all his interlineations, corrections, alterations, &c. &c. His MSS. in the Museum are often found in the same state. This in short is a facsimile in every respect except the handwriting which I have not attempted to imitate.
[Here follows a transcript of the Satire One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty, which as it was printed in 1797 in Dr. Warton’s edition of Pope, need not appear here. Malone gave him the clue to its depository with much other information for his volumes. Dr. Wilson in communicating it, writes thus to Warton:—
[“This poem I transcribed from a rough draft in Pope’s own hand. He left many blanks for fear of the Argus eyes of those who, if they cannot find, can fabricate treason; yet spite of his precaution it fell into the hands of his enemies. To the hieroglyphics there are direct allusions, I think, in some of the notes on the Dunciad. It was lent me by a grandson of Lord Chetwynd, an intimate friend of the famous Lord Bolingbroke, who gratified his curiosity by a boxful of the rubbish and sweepings of Pope’s study, whose executor he was, in conjunction with Lord Marchmont."
- ↑ They were lent to Dr. Wilson by Lord Chetwynd.
