Letter 15.
1 The Stamp Act was not passed until June 1712: see the Journal for Aug. 7,
1712.
2 Both in St. James's Park. The Canal was formed by Charles II. from several
small ponds, and Rosamond's Pond was a sheet of water in the south-west corner
of the Park, "long consecrated," as Warburton said, "to disastrous love and
elegiac poetry." It is often mentioned as a place of assignation in
Restoration plays. Evelyn (Diary, Dec. 1, 1662) describes the "scheets" used
on the Canal.
3 Mrs. Beaumont.
4 The first direct mention of Hester Vanhomrigh. She is referred to only in
two other places in the Journal (Feb. 14, 1710-11, and Aug, 14, 1711).
5 See Letter 3, note 17.
6 No. 27, by Swift himself.
7 No. 7 of Harrison's series.
8 The printers of the original Tatler.
9 Harley had forwarded to Swift a banknote for fifty pounds (see Journal,
March 7, 1710-11).
10 At Moor Park.
11 Scott says that Swift here alludes to some unidentified pamphlet of which
he was the real or supposed author.
12 See Letter 11, note 13.
13 The Examiner.
14 See Letter 6, note 43.
15 Mistaken.
16 Mrs. De Caudres, "over against St. Mary's Church, near Capel Street,"
where Stella now lodged.
17 "A crease in the sheet" (Deane Swift).
18 "In the original it was, good mallows, little sollahs. But in these words,
and many others, he writes constantly ll for rr" (Deane Swift).
19 See Letter 4, note 19.
20 "Those letters which are in italics in the original are of a monstrous
size, which occasioned his calling himself a loggerhead" (Deane Swift).
[Italics replaced by capitals for the transcription of this etext.]
21 I.e., to ask whether.
