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friends of Swift : Sent with a Quill to Dr Swift

[Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attributed to another, and a poem for his birthday] 'I send you your Bit of News-paper with the Verses, than which I never saw better in their Kind; I have the same Opinion of those you were pleased to write upon me, as have also some particular Friends of Genius and Taste, to whom I ventured to communicate them, who universally agree with me.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: friends of Swift     Manuscript: Unknown

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