"Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? in every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part."
— Alexander Pope

January 1, 1970

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Letter, written in collaboration with Dr John Arbuthnot, to Jonathan Swift (December 5, 1732) upon the death of John Gay.