. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . neglect that she imputes to the post, or anythingelse except that she was forgot by her old friend, and she goeson to tell him that she is constantly on horseback, visiting thebeauties of Connaught, and that she believes that if he would lendher a little of his head, she would almost approach Addison in Complete Peerage, vii, 452. See also the Argosy for April and July, 1896. IN THE TIME OF SWIFT AND GRATTAN. 137 some of his descriptions of Italy. The third le
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . neglect that she imputes to the post, or anythingelse except that she was forgot by her old friend, and she goeson to tell him that she is constantly on horseback, visiting thebeauties of Connaught, and that she believes that if he would lendher a little of his head, she would almost approach Addison in Complete Peerage, vii, 452. See also the Argosy for April and July, 1896. IN THE TIME OF SWIFT AND GRATTAN. 137 some of his descriptions of Italy. The third letter, which is datedSt. Stephens Day, 1737, and was apparently written from Howth,announces a present of wild duck, partridge, plover, and venison,which she says that she sends by a blackguard, knowing theDeans generosity.^ The portrait of Swift was painted in the summer of 1735, andis mentioned by him in a letter to his friend Sheridan, datedJune 16 in that year, in which he says that he has been fool enoughto sit for his picture at full-length by Mr. Bindon for his LordHowth, and had sat that day for two hours and a half. In a. Swifts Chair. letter which is dated July 6 following, and which was writtenfrom Kilfane, William expresses his obligation to his good Deanof St. Patricks for the honour he had done him in sitting for theportrait, and says that he had asked Dr. Grattan to carry it to hisown house in order that a copy might not be substituted for To commemorate further Swifts visits to Howth,William took advantage of the birds-eye view, and caused him to1)6 represented in the left-hand corner, sitting on a seat. The 1 Swifts Correspondence, v, 59, 81, 369 ; vi, 57. Ibid., V, 194, 201. 138 HOWTH AND ITS OWXEliS. earliest visit which Swift records that he paid to Howth was inNovember, 1731/ but his visits were subsequently frequent andnot confined to the periods in which Lord Howth was in December, 1734, he mentions riding to Howth when the Castl
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