Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Selected Letters

• Early mentions of the Travels
  Swift to Charles Ford 19 Jan 1724
  Swift to Charles Ford 13 Feb 1724
  Bolingbroke to Swift 12 September 1724
  Bolingbroke "To the three Yahoos of Twittenham" 23 July 1726

  The name "Gulliver" [selections]

  Swift to Alexander Pope 29 Sept 1725

  "finishing correcting, amending, and Transcribing my Travells"

  Swift to Alexander Pope 26 Nov 1725

  "Drown the World, I am not content with despising it..."

  Swift to the Earl of Peterborough April 28, 1726.

  regarding Walpole and Ireland

  'Richard Sympson' and Benjamin Motte Aug 1726

  negotiating publication of the Travels

  John Arbuthnot to Swift 5 Nov 1726

  "I tell you freely the part of the projectors is the leats Brilliant."

  Alexander Pope to Swift 16 Nov 1726

  "I congratulate you first upon what you call your Couzen's wonderful Book"

  John Gay to Swift 17 Nov 1726.

  "About ten days ago a Book was publish'd here of the Travels of one Gulliver"

  Swift to Alexander Pope 27 Nov 1726

  "I would desire all my acquaintance to give out that his copy was basely mangled"

  'Lemuel Gulliver' to Mrs. Howard Nov 28. 1726

  Charles Ford to Benjamin Motte Jan. 3. 1727

  'The Prince of Lilliput' to 'Stella' 11 March 1727

1 July 1712 from Journal to Stella with facsimile of letter.