Letter from Jonathan Swift to Henrietta Howard mb-height 3370 3rd August 1987

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Letter from Jonathan Swift to Henrietta Howard mb-height 3370 3rd August 1987Letter from Jonathan Swift to Henrietta Howard, 21st November 1730. Letter written from Dublin by Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, to Henrietta, Bedchamber woman to Queen Caroline and wife of the Hon Charles Howard (Earl of Suffolk, 1731). The letter complains that the Queen has not performed her promise to give him a medal, and of her having sacrificed John Gay, the poet, to the pique of Sir Robert Walpole, and expressing the wish that the Queen would