furnished lodgings in London, his papers appear to have fallen into the hands of persons totally incapable of estimating their value. Many, indeed by far the greater part, were treated as ordinary waste paper, and the rest were saved from the same fate by Mr Smith, a gentleman of taste and liberality, who was much grieved and surprised at the condition in which he discovered the correspondence of Swift, and of Pope, and several of the miscellaneous Poems of the former. Several of these are still in the Editor's hands, being confided to him by the liberality of Mr Smith, now absent on the continent. There can be no question of their originality, but they do not contain much that has not been already published. What additions Mr Smith's papers have afforded to this Second Edition of the Dean of St Patrick's works, are acknowledged where these are inserted. ABBOTSFORD, 1st June, 1824. 1 |