BIB_ID
127674
Accession number
MA 561.36
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
[1734] Aug. 2.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and seal. Franked by Peterborow.
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of letters and documents of Alexander Pope. Items within the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Year from Sherburn.
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of letters and documents of Alexander Pope. Items within the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Year from Sherburn.
Summary
Remarking on their twenty-year friendship. Concerning satire, stating: "But General Satire in Times of General Vice has no force, and is no Punishment: People have ceas'd to be ashamed of it when so many are joined with them; and tis only by hunting One or two from the Herd that any Examples can be made. If a man writ all his Life against the Collective Body of the Banditti, or against Lawyers, wouild it do the least Good, or lessen the Body? But if some are hung up, or pilloried, it may prevent others. And in my low Station, with no other Power than this, I hope to deter, if not to reform." Also alluding to Arbuthnot's health and mentioning that he is writing from "the most beautiful Top of Hill I ever saw."
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