r after the copy of Pope's collection of letters had been
deposited in the library of Lord Oxford, which throws back the deposit
of the letters from the close of 1729 to 1727. Since the poet revived
and authenticated an anonymous fiction respecting his personal acts, he
may reasonably be supposed to have been the author of it. The object of
the imposition was to uphold the tale he had advanced in his Wycherley
volume. He had ceased to state openly that the publication was the act
of Lord Oxford; but he wished to have it believed that the letters were
in the keeping of his noble friend at the time, and to leave the
impression that the notion of printing them had not originated with
himself.]

[Footnote 80: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 420.]

[Footnote 81: Vol. I. p. xxxix.]

[Footnote 82: Warton's Pope, Vol. II. p. 339.]

[Footnote 83: "Lives of the Poets," Vol. III. p. 63.]

[Footnote 84: "Athenaeum," Sept. 8, 1860.]

[Footnote 85: Maloniana, p. 385.]

[Footnote 86: "Lives of the Poets," Vol. III. p. 62.]

[Footnote 87: Vol. I. p. 417.]

[Footnote 88: Vol. I. Appendix, pp. 430, 431, 443.]

[Footnote 89: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 431.]

[Footnote 90: Vol. I. Appendix, pp. 431, 443.]

[Footnote 91: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 443.]

[Footnote 92: Vol. I. Appendix, pp. 444, 445.]

[Footnote 93: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 431.]

[Footnote 94: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 432.]

[Footnote 95: Vol. I. Appendix, pp. 423, 447.]

[Footnote 96: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 444.]

[Footnote 97: From a letter which Lord Oxford addressed to Swift on June
19, 1735, he would appear to have known no more than the rest of the
public. "Master Pope," he writes, "is under persecution from Curll, who
has by some means (wicked ones most certainly) got hold of some of
Pope's private letters, which he has printed, and threatens more."]

[Footnote 98: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 447.]

[Footnote 99: "Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence," 12mo. Vol. III, p.
x.]

[Footnote 100: Pope to Buckley, July 13, [1735].]

[Footnote 101: Art. Atterbury in "A General Biographical Dictionary
translated from Bayle, interspersed with several thousand lives never
before published. By Rev. J. P. Bernard, Rev. T. Birch, Mr. John
Lockman, and other hands." Vol II. p. 447.]

[Footnote 102: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 447.]

[Footnote 103: Pope to Fortescue, March 26, 1736, and April, 1736.]

[Footnote 104: Pope to Allen, June 5 and Nov. 6, 1736.]

[Footnote 105: Pope to Allen, Nov. 6, 173