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Letters, poems, and tales : amorous, satyrical, and gallant. Which passed between several persons of distinction / now first publish'd from their respective originals, found in the cabinet of that celebrated toast Mrs. Anne Long, since her decease. (London : Printed for E. Curll in Fleetstreet, 1718)

52. Letters, poems, and tales

Anne Long was a noted beauty, the toast of the Kit-Cat Club, a Whig group frequented by Swift when he first went to London. The first item in this collection by Curll is Swift’s "Decree for concluding the treaty between Dr. Swift and Mrs. Long", drawn up during Christmas celebrations in 1707.

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