The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 13/From Jonathan Swift to George Faulkner - 5

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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 13
(1738)
by Jonathan Swift, edited by Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, John Boyle, Patrick Delany, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift, William Bowyer, John Birch, and George Faulkner

To Mr. Faulkner

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1557536The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 13
— To Mr. Faulkner1738Jonathan Swift

TO MR. FAULKNER.

SIR,

MARCH 8, 1737-8.

SOME of my friends wonder very much at your delaying to publish that treatise of Polite Conversation, &c. when you so often desired that I should hasten to correct the several copies you sent me; which, as ill as I have been, and am still, I dispatched as fast as I got them. I expect you would finish it immediately, and send it to me; I hope you have observed all the corrections. I hear you have not above four or five pages remaining. I find people think you are too negligent; and, if you delay longer, what you fear may come to pass, that the English edition may come over before you have your own ready.

I am your humble servant,

JON. SWIFT.