ABSTRACT
From Dryden’s letters to Mrs Steward, (a) 12 March 1699/1700, (b) 11 April 1700. His Fables were published in the first week of March. Mrs Steward was the daughter of Dryden’s cousin Elizabeth Creed. (Letters of John Dryden, 1942, ed. C. E. Ward, nos. 74 and 75.)
