OF

CURIOUS ARTICLES

FROM THE

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

CONTAINING

I. LETTERS TO AND FROM EMINENT PERSONS.
II. MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES, INCLUDING ANECDOTES
OF EXTRAORDINARY PERSONS, USEFUL PRO-
JECTS AND INVENTIONS, &c. &c.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATER-
NOSTER-ROW; AND MUNDAY AND SLATTER, OXFORD.

Printed by Munday and Slatter, Oxford.

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CONTENTS

OF THE

THIRD VOLUME.

LETTERS TO AND FROM EMINENT PERSONS.

1. FROM Algernon Sidney, in answer to one persuad-

ing his return to England after the Restoration

II. Oliver Cromwell to his Son-in-law, Gen. Fleetwood

III. Oliver Cromwell to the Speaker of the House of Com-

mons on founding a College at Durham

IV. From Sir Robert Strange, containing an account of

some Pictures at Rome

V. Mr. Addison to a Lady

VI. From Dean Swift, on the Fishery

VII. Two Letters from the late Countess of Hertford, af-

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terwards Duchess of Somerset, on the death of

her only son George Lord Viscount Beauchamp,

who died of the Small Pox at Bologna, in 1744

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VIII. The Duke of Ormond to his Son

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IX. To Sir Richard Steele, on his Play of the Con-

scious Lovers

X. Two Letters from Mr. Gilbert Walmsley to the

late Professor Colson, of Cambridge, when

Master of an Academy at Rochester, relative

to Garrick and Johnson

XI. Two Letters from Mr. Everard, relative to Count

Alberti, condemned to the Mines in Idra

XII. Justinian Pagitt to Dr. Twysden, Chancellor of

the Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, on

some remarkable Trials in the Star Cham-

ber

XIII. Lord Cornbury to the Vice-Chancellor of Ox-

XIV. Miss Talbot to a new-born child, daughter of

Mr. John Talbot, a son of the Lord Chan-

cellor

XV. Sir Walter Raleigh to Prince Henry, Son of

XVI. From Sir John Harrington, concerning his dog

XVII. Letters from Queen Henrietta Maria to Charles I.

XVIII. Letters between the Duchess of Kingston and Mr.

Foote

XIX. Letters containing Strictures on Gray's Posthum-

ous Works

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XX. Mr. George Vertue to Mr. Charles Christian,

concerning Milton's Portrait

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XXI. The Rev. Dr. Stanhope, Dean of Canterbury, to

Mr. Bowyer

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XXII. Letters of Mr. Turner and Mr. Hughes

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XXIII. Letters from Lord Carteret to the Earl of Oxford

XXIV. Letters from Bishop Atterbury to Mr. Prior, and

from Mr. Prior to Mr. Wanley

XXV. Letters to and from Mr. Garrick

XXVI. Montague Bacon, Esq. to the Rev. Mr. Williams

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