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Notes
His listing was in response to an extended discussion in previous issues and appeared in 1st ser. 10 (1854), 477-478, 497-498, and 517-520. It was reprinted with four additional entries and minor corrections in volume IV of the Elwin-Courthope edition of Pope's Works (1882), pp. 299-311.
The Times Literary Supplement's response to this volume reflects the interest attending the Dunciad question. The TLS was so greatly impressed that it continued its praise of the Pope section a second week, justifying the special treatment on the grounds that the bibliography was "so much in advance of anything which has hitherto appeared" (22 May 1924, p. 328; the first review appeared on 15 May, p. 303). Neither TLS article mentioned Griffith's work.
The trouble between Wise and Griffith may have been presaged in 1920. When the Wrenn collection was moved to Austin, Wise helped Wrenn's son compile a catalog of it (A Catalogue of the Library of the late John Henry Wrenn [1920]). William Todd has indicated that these numbered copies were assigned according to the honor intended to their recipients. Wise, his family, and his friends received the early copies; Griffith, who had been crucial in obtaining the collection for Texas, was far down the list and got number 71 in the edition of 120 copies ("Unfamiliar Collections, II: The Wrenn Library," Library Chronicle of the University of Texas, NS 8 [1974], 73-81).
My use of the Hinman Collator has revealed a different pattern of resettings from that which Foxon's catalog records on the basis of visual inspection. Mr. Foxon has informed me that he has no disagreement with my tally.
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