Unpublished letters of Dean Swift Author:Jonathan Swift Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: No usurper!" The meeting-houses of the Nonconformists were pulled down. Thirty-nine years later Mrs. Delany wrote : " We were ushered into Oxford by ringing of b... more »ells, illuminations, squibs, crackers, and bonfires, and could willingly have spared all the bustle and roar of joy that surrounded us. It was all for his Majesty's coronation day." [Indorsed, "A pencil note f Wodebrook where he came in K. C.'s [Knight ley Chetwodes absence dining out." Not to disturb you in the good work of a Godfather nor spoil yr dinner, I onely design Mrs Chet- wode and you would take care not to be benighted ; but come when you will you shall be heartily welcome to my House. The children's Tutor is gone out and so there was no pen and ink to be had. Woodbrook, Nov' 6"' past one in the afternoon. [Indorsed, " This was my advice to a young Lady." I look [sic over the inclosed some time ago, andagain just now ; it contains many good Things, and wants many alterations. I have made one or two, and pointed at others, but an Author can only sett his own Things right.—Friday. [Per messenger.] Dublin. Decbr 3. 1714 SR,—Mr Graves never came to me till this morning, like a vile Man as he is. I had no letters from Engld to vex me except on the publick Account; I am now teazed by an impertinent woman, come to renew her Lease, the Baron and she are talking together—I have just squired her down, and there is at present no body with me but—yes now Mr Wall [? Walls] is come in—and now another—you must stay ;—Now I am full of company again and the Baron is in hast,—I will write to you in a Post or two. Manly is not Commissnr nor expects it. I had a very ingenious Tory Ballad sent me printed, but receiving it in a Whig house I suddenly read it, and gave it to a Gentleman with a wink, and ordered ...« less