He told the same story to Swift, speaking of the "connivance" of his noble friend, and adding that, though he did not himself "much approve" of the publication, he was not ashamed of it.

He thus ingeniously intimated that the correspondence, which he had himself carefully prepared and sent to press, had been printed without his consent by the officious zeal of Oxford and the booksellers.
The book (which was called the second volume of Wycherley's works) has entirely disappeared.

It was advertised at the time, but not a single copy is known to exist.

One cause of this disappearance now appears to be that it had no sale at first, and that Pope preserved the sheets for use in a more elaborate device which followed.

Oxford probably objected to the misuse of his name, as the fiction which made him responsible was afterwards dropped.