There are more photos up in the usual place, with the usual sign-in, and the usual option of writing me for a higher resolution copy.

I’ll add a quote from Boileau, discovered in David Nichol Smith’s amiable volume “Some Observations on Eighteenth Century Poetry,” which is available as of now for anyone interested in Pope and his contemporaries.

What is a new thought?  It is not a thought which nobody has had, and perhaps nobody ought to have had, but it is a thought which everyone might have had and someone has been the first to express.

Qu’est-ce qu’une pensée neuve, brillante, extraordinaire ? Ce n’est point, comme se le persuadent les ignorants, une pensée que personne n’a jamais eue, ni dû avoir : c’est au contraire une pensée qui a dû venir à tout le monde et que quelqu’un s’avise le premier d’exprimer.