Alexander Pope: A Letter to Lord Bathurst
A hitherto unpublished letter of October 1737. Introduction by Howard Erskine-Hill. Printed at the Old Hall Press, 250 numbered copies. Wrappers. 1996.
“For the whole Winter I am no more alive than a Dormouse (not to say half the Summer too). I am glad you writ to the Dean, who I hear has been ill, and the Sight of a Letter from you, I am sure, will comfort him, who finds so little to do in his own Country. To see one is remembered by a worthy man in this age, is all the Incitement a man has to fancy he shall be so by Posterity; by which (we always pay it the compliment of imagining) the Arrears of Virtue are to be payed, tho for the most part they are struck off.”OUT OF PRINT