New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-24
DEAN SWIFT AND MRS. DELANY
THE LETTERS WHICH THEY WROTE TO.
EACH OTHER.

in This paper a fortnight ago, reference was ""
10 certain letters which passed between ME-
lendarves-who afterward became Mrs. Deian'-
aud Dean Swift. the subsequent publication OF
,s,,ch in collection of the Deans letters greatly
mortified her. A few are preserved IN tins work.
one of them. with the Deans reply. is copied below.
Ms a pctare of the times well as an exhioiiion Oh
the personal character Of the writer -
LITTLE BRoox-sr.. sept. 10. 1884
SIR: find your correspondence IS like TIE sing
inc of ,he nightingale-no bird sings so swectyi
bnt the pleasure is quickly past mouth or two OF
harmony ana then We lose 1t tai next spring.
wish yorr favors may certainly return. am ~
ths time not only deprived of your letters but OF
all other of inauiIing AFTER your nta.n, So -.
friends and nv correspondents oeing ~
their Summer quarters and Know Is iittle oi - w
ms do | have not forgot one mortifNlng article On
this occasion, and il your design In neSiecniug ,S
TO humble me- It has taken Siiec .od most GER
tanly put it IN execution, bn, nave Only ,no ou9
malice of an incensed negIceteo wnua viii 70
The power of returning it, The last letter MI. ~
Won was from Gloucester. about atwelvemonth nso'
after that went to Long Leaf to my Lazy Wy .S-
mouth came to town in January. wherc nsscie
manned ever since except a few weeks spent at
Sir John Staneys at Northend tthe DeiVl,ie Oh lns
parf of the world. | hope Naboths- Nineynia
fourishes; 1t always has nv good WISHES, teousn
i am not mean enough 10 partake oil us lr1,i's;;
The town is now empty and by mosI peOp'e o
dull 10 me IL is Just agreeable, Tor nave most VI
ms particular friends IN town. MY supet,
fnous acquaintance can very well spare NV Lore
farert Is AZ HAYNES; my Lady Carteret Is III towi
nursing my Lady Dysart, who Is brought TO Den Oh
n very fne SON. and IN hopes of my Lady Wey-
mouths being soon under tne SAM % as
have not seen my Lord Bathurst since was az
his house IN Worcestershire That = mlscnlei !
believe you have produced, for IS long az Souiu
entertain him with an account on MS iriehu, tue
nnan he was glad TO see me, but lately we have
been great strangers. Mrs Donellan sometimes
talks of making Winters visit TO Dublin; ana his
vanity enough TO think you are one OF those .na'
will treat her kindly. Her loss 10 me VIII be IRE
parable. besides the mornca1ohh du W. 90 oS Sadv ac
COMPANY her. but know she will be just, aud tell
the reason why coald not this, year lake such a
progress After having forced myself INTO your
romnanv il will be impeTtiEent 10 make you q
longer visit and destroy the intention OF H. when
was only assure You or my heinE ST. your must
'"'''iu' ""O ''''S ~ '' M PENDsRvEs.
Oct. z 1884
MADAM: When received the honor aud happi-
ness of your last letter dated September ", twas
afflicted with pair OF disorders iha' usnaily s''Io
me once q wear, and with whieh nave oeg 1 a. f
late wears that they have begun 20 come
together, although i should have been better
co. dizziness and deafness. which usually
last month: the first tormenting my body ana me
other making nee incapable of conyersing. In this
;"nctnre yonr letter found me; but was able to
read though not TO hear; neither dld Vaiue my
deafness for three DAYS. because I3ui Iet,e was nS
which | grew senslbly better aud, although was
not abroad till yesterday, find myse well enough
10 acknowledge the great favor you have done me-
INT capnot guess your motive for much goodness.
guess that your good genius accidentally meeting
mn
Won happrn 10 he at leisure by the Summer absence
az your friends Or, would you appear constant
nymph, when all my goddesses oil much longer ae-
onaintance have forsaken me, as ~ IS reasonable
they shoudi Bnt the men are almost as bad as the
ladies, and | cannot but think them III the right:
for cannot make shifts and he rough, anu be I'M
done bv starving in scanty lodgings, without horses,
servants or cOnvonicnces as used to do IN London
with port wine, or perhaps Porters ale. TO save
chargesl
You dare not pretend to say that your town
equals ours in hospitable evenings with your
deep play and no entertainment Dut cup
Of chocolate, unless You have menued your
manners l will not declare your reasons for
rot taking second trip over hitneT, because you
have offered none but your royal will and pleasure
hut if were in the of your friends here, with
more life before me and better health, would
solicit an act of Parliament to prevent your coming
among Ms : or M least to make it nigh treason III
YOU ever to leave US. In the meantime, WISH you
would gladly agree 10 a contribution for life din
ncrs aud Shippers excluded, that are 70 so Tor moth
ing. speak for the pubic good OF tins country
because pernicOus heTesy prevails here among the
men that 1t is the duty Of your sex to be fools in
every article except what Is merely domestic, and
10 do the ladies' justice there are very few OF them
without good share If that hcresy, except upon
one article that they have as little regard TOR family
business for the improvement oil their minds
have had for some time design to write
against this hercsy, but have now laid those
thoughts aside, for fear OF making both sexes my
enemies; however II you wiz come over to my
versaries and dare them to produce one instance
where your want of Ignorance makes You affected
pr.tendinc ccnceted, disdantu endcavoring 10
sneak like "a scholar, with twenty more faults OBJ
jected by themselves their lovers or their husbands
But fear your case is desperate. for l know you
never laugh at jest before you understand IT, and
Imuch question whether you understand ian or
have 80 good q fancy at silks as Others, and your
WAY of spelling would not be inteligible. There
FORE upon yaur arrival blther (which | ex,
pect IN three packets at furthest 1 VIII
give a license to be as silly as You can possibly
afford, one-half hour every week, to the beretics
OF each sex, TO atone for which yon are to
keep one fasting-day at Doctor DelanJ's or Dr.
Helshau's. and one at the Deanery
think my Lord Carteret is the most happy, in
all circumstances of life, that ever have known,
and as he well deserves II, SO hope he Is sensible
of il all my fear Is that he Will be too rich. am
no cause of my Lord Bathursts torsaklng you he
hath long done the same with me, and TO say the
truth madam, IL Is q very cold scent To continue a
correspondence with one whom we never expect 10
see. lnever knew 1t long practised, except among
the learned of different nations; Mr. rope ana my
Lord Bolingbroke themselves begin TO fail me in
seven years Nothing vexcs me SO much with re-
latlon 10 YOU as that with all my disposition 10
find faults. was never cree able TO fix upon anv-
thing that l could find amiss, although l
watched Won narrow Nv for when found We
10 lose YOU soon, / kept my eyes and ears
always upon y9g ~ hopes that you would I make
signifies sudden jerk from horses hinder feet
winch you did not expect. because you thought him
for some months sober animal. and tins hath been
my case with several ladies' whom L chose for
friends /: Ia a week month, or a year, hardly one
OF them failed TO give me boutade therefore /
command you will obey my orders IN coming over
hifher for one whole year after which, upon the
first boutade you make. / will give you my pass TO
he gone.
Are Won acquainted with the Duke of Chandois
know your uncle Lansdowne and he were init
mate friends / have known the Duke long aud
well and thought l had share IN his common
favor, bu. he bath lately given mo great Cause
of learning here 10 write TO his Grace, that having
some old records relating TO this kingdom, which
were taken from hence by the Earl of Clarendon,
who lieuseDaDtheTe, and purchased them from
priyate owners and now III tue Dukes possess