Great work. In these spreadsheets, we want to include *everything*, and
items which we won't collect simply don't get an omnibus title. This
lets us know in the future that we considered all of these entries and
declined them, so we don't have to re-do this research if someone asks
about it in the future.
You can include "modest address" in the spreadsheet, mark it as
belonging in the omnibus, but make a note that there is no transcription
and the scans are bad.
> spreadsheets/d/1P1aVN39AB45lpauaClk2tFxfKmWBggSXRO0IZOLEk9A/ <https://
>
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/
> d/1P1aVN39AB45lpauaClk2tFxfKmWBggSXRO0IZOLEk9A/>
>
> As I suggested earlier, this is going to be tricky to get right. This
> selection was pulled from the 16(!) volumes of /The Works of Dr.
> Jonathan Swift/ published in 1766. There’s a vast amount of stuff that
> doesn’t fit into our collection policy (my production-notes.md file
> currently mentions that we’re not including “prayers, sermons, most
> letters, political reports of the day, political pamphlets, poems,
> memoirs, biographies, and most newspaper op-eds”).
>
> Then there’s a bunch of stuff that was either written by Swift under a
> pseudonym or possibly not by Swift at all. This is at least partially
> detailed at
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-
> supplement-to-dr-swif_swift-jonathan_1776_2/page/468/mode/2up <https://
>
archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-supplement-to-dr-
> swif_swift-jonathan_1776_2/page/468/mode/2up>.
> Essays <
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Jonathan_Swift/
> Essays> it’ll give you some idea of the sort of thing I’m omitting. For
> example, “An Account of the Court of Japan” is left out for being
> ”Histories that aren’t otherwise notable” as per the collections policy,
> ”On the Death of Mrs. Johnson” for being in the category “biographies of
> long-forgotten people that aren’t notable”, and ”A Letter to a Young
> Clergyman” for falling into the catch-all “Dated non-fiction that isn’t
> relevant to a modern reader”. Super happy to hear people’s thoughts on this.
>
> There is one that I’ve listed but I think I won’t do: ”A modest address
> to the wicked authors of the present age. Particularly the authors of
> Christianity not founded on argument; and of The resurrection of Jesus
> considered”. It’s 26k words, I can’t find any transcriptions, and the
> scans <
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-modest-
> address-to-the-_swift-jonathan_1765> are of a poor enough quality to
> preclude OCR.
>
> Do we agree with this as it stands? I’ll get started if so.
>
> -Robin
>
> P. S. I’d love to include the satirical “The Benefit of Farting
> Explained” but the scan <
https://www.google.se/books/edition/
> The_Benefit_of_Farting_Explained_c_Or_Th/ZKFhAAAAcAAJ> don’t have a date
> and the notes have it as being of uncertain authorship. Shame.
>
> -Robin
>
>> On 5 Sep 2026, at 13:22, Robin Whittleton <
ro...@reala.net> wrote:
>>
>> I volunteered to produce the patron pick this month, and they went for
>> circle-september-2026-selection/votes>/./ This is going to be a fairly
>> complex production as Swift’s pen ranged across a bunch of subjects,
>> but I’m putting together a spreadsheet. I expect I’ll continue making
>> choices during production as I read through a bunch of his work as to
>> whether to include it or not, but the spreadsheet will document that.
>> There’s a bunch of transcriptions on PG but I expect I’ll be pulling
>> from a load of different places for this.
>>
>> Repo is at
https://github.com/robinwhittleton/jonathan-swift_essays
>> <
https://github.com/robinwhittleton/jonathan-swift_essays>.
>>
>> For cover art, I found a nice painting of him by Charles Jevens, which
>> artworks/charles-jervas/jonathan-swift>.
>>
>> -Robin
>>
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