SWIFT." Mr.Fitzgerald was permitted to make a collation of this manuscript, and his collation he sent to the late John Forster.

It is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington.[2] [Footnote 2: I regret that I have been unable to trace the existence of this manuscript of Swift's "History." Mr.Fitzgerald himself has no recollection of having made the collation.

"Forty-five years ago," he writes, "is a long time to look back to," and he cannot recall the fact.] If this manuscript be what, on the face of it, it claims to be, then the question of authenticity is for ever settled.

As we have no doubt on this point, the corrections and variations between this manuscript, as collated by Mr.Percy Fitzgerald and the Lucas version, have been noted in the present edition.
In 1752 Lord Orrery issued his "Remarks" on the life and character of Swift.

The work obtained for him a certain notoriety, and brought down upon him some severe censure from the friends of Swift who were still alive.