_Was Stella Swift's Sister?_ (Vol. iii., p. 450.).--J. H. S. will find
this question raised in the _The closing Years of Dean Swift's Life_, by
W. R. Wilde, M.R.I.A.:--
"That Stella was the daughter of Sir Wm. Temple appears more than
probable; but that Swift was his son, and consequently her half
brother, remains to be proved. It has, it is true, been often
surmised, from the date of Orrery's book to the present time, but
we cannot discover in the supposition anything but vague
conjecture."
Mr. Wilde, however, proceeds to quote in favour of the opinion from an
article in _The Gentleman's and London Magazine_, pp. 555. to 560.,
Dublin. Printed for John Exshaw, Nov. 1757.