THE

WORKS

OF

Alexander Pope Efq.

VOLUME VII.

CONTAINING THE

FIRST of his LETTERS.

LONDON,

Printed for J. and P. KNAPTON in Ludgate-street.

MDCCLII.

LIBRARY

PREFACE

Of the Publisher of the Surreptitious Edition, 1735.

W

E prefume we want no apology to the reader for this publication, but fome may be thought needful to Mr. Pope however be cannot think our offence fo great as theirs, who first feparately published what we have here but collected in a better form and order. As for the letters we have procured to be added, they ferve but to complete, explain, and fometimes set in a true light, thofe others, which it was not in the writer's, or our power to recall.

This collection bath been owing to feveral cabinets: fome drawn from thence by accidents, and others (even of thofe to ladies) voluntarily given. It is to one of that fex we are beholden for the whole correspondence with H. C. efq. which letters being lent her by that gentleman, she took the liberty to print; as appears by the following, VOL. VII.

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