THE Author of theſe Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my antient and intimate Friend; there is likewiſe ſome Relation between us by the Mother's Side.
1726 October 28, Richard Sympson [pseudonym], “The Publisher to the Reader”, in [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page iv