¹ A Sermon Preached at St. Patrick's Church, On St. Concilia's Day. By Thomas Sheridan, D. D… . Dublin: Printed by S. Powell … for the Author, MDCCXXXI. [Letter] “To the Reverend Dr. Thomas Sheridan,” pp. [vii–viii].

² A Letter to the Rend. Dr. Thomas Sheridan. Occasion'd by a Sermon Preach'd at St. Patrick's Church, on St. Ccecilia's Day. To which is added, The History of the Life of St. Ccecilia … Dublin: [no imprint] Printed in the Year MCCXXXI, p. 5. Speculation as to authorship seems fruitless. John Aber-nethy was then in Dublin, but this heavy-handed work is beneath his abilities.

³ A Vindication of his Excellency John, Lord Carteret, in The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, ed. Herbert Davis (Oxford, 1955), xii, 166. All later references to Swift's prose are to the Davis ed., cited as Prose Works.

⁴ See A Panegyric on Dean Swift, in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, ed. Harold Williams (Oxford, 1937), ii, 496. All later references to Swift's poems are to the Williams ed., cited as Poems.

⁵ Swift to Bathurst, October 1730, in The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, ed. F. Elrington Ball (London, 1913), iv, 169—hereafter cited as Correspondence.

⁶ Correspondence, iv, 151.

⁷ Correspondence, iv, 177, 181, 184, 191, 194.

⁸ Correspondence, iv, 122, 127, 137, 161, 194, 202.

⁹ Poems, iii, 812.

¹⁰ Throughout this paragraph the numbers in parentheses refer to Vol. xii of the Prose Works or to Poems.

¹¹ The numbers refer to the Prose Works.

¹² Although sectary does not appear in the 1709 Letter concerning the Test, it is used twice in the Sentiments of a Church-of-England Man and very frequently in the 1732–33 pieces: 14 times in Queries concerning the Test, as well as in Considerations upon Two Bills (202), The Advantages Propos'd (249, 250), The Presbyterians' Plea of Merit (271, 274, 278), and Reasons Humbly Offered (285).

¹³ There are 9 references to poison in Gulliver alone.

¹⁴ The Letters of Jonathan Swift to Charles Ford, ed. David Nichol Smith (Oxford, 1935), p. 82.

¹⁵ The order followed is that of the text of A.D.'s letter. The parenthetic numbers refer to Prose Works, Vol. II.

¹⁶ These words were present in the 1st. ed. but were later omitted. See Prose Works, ii, 284.

¹⁷ Jonathan Swift and Ireland (Urbana, Ill., 1962), p. 183.

¹⁸ It is known that Sheridan consulted Swift about his projected publications, e.g., his collection of bons mots, referred to in Correspondence, iv, 408 and after. This collection has been believed lost since John Watkins' Statement in his Memoirs of R. B. Sheridan (London, 1817) that it was “long since irretrievably lost” (p. 32); but 10 MS vols, of Sheridan's apothegms and comic stories, 7 in his own hand, are in the Gilbert Library in Dublin. Some vols, are endorsed “Read to the Dean”; others “Perused.” The Gilbert Library also contains the MS. of Sheridan's trans, of Il Pastor Fido.

¹⁹ The research for this paper was made possible through an AAUW fellowship.