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Excerpt from The Life of Jonathan Swift, Vol. 1: Volume the First, 1667-1711
Though the original materials thus far employed in the story will speak for themselves, it may be expected that the principal of them, as well as of other new matter to be used in the two remaining vol umes that will complete the work, should have mention in this place. When the task was undertaken, Mr. Murray confided to the writer nearly fifty unpublished letters addressed by Swift to Archdeacon Walls after he was Dean of St. Patrick's; and this incentive to far ther research led to many richer acquisitions. More than a hundred and fifty new letters have been placed at my disposal.
The value of the results yielded by collation of the later portions of the Journal to Stella with the original manuscript, can be judged only partially by the use of them in this volume. To later passages of the life their contribution will be extremely important. Some special blanks in the printed journal, on which Scot-t remarks, are filled up by them.
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