Note 208 — Chapter IV · THE SATIRIC GROUP
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Cf. in regard to Lyttelton (a) The Persian strip’d of his disguise ... Dublin, 1735, a small pamphlet of twenty-three pages attacking Lyttelton’s “late libel intitled Letters from a Persian in England to his friend in Ispahan.”
(b) The Persian Letters continued, London, 1736, third edition, “erroneously ascribed to Lord Lyttelton.” (Dictionary of National Biography.)
(c) Edward Moore’s poem in defense of Lord Lyttelton, The Trial of Selim the Persian for divers high crimes and misdemeanours. (Chalmers: English Poets, London, 1810, Vol. XIV., p. 202.)
(d) The Court Secret a Melancholy Truth, now first translated from the original Arabic by an Adept in the Oriental Tongues, London, 1742, an anonymous work ascribed to Lord Lyttelton, but not included in the third edition of his works.