The Rump of Swift is a short comic piece embedded in Howard’s circa-June 1928 letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (letter #075). It begins:

There was Estelle — or was it Estelle? Anyway Swift talked baby talk to her — like this: “You little hussy, you’ve got the brain of a two months old baby, damn you.”

So Swift went to Ireland. However, he did not arrive in time to be a native of Ireland which was always a source of deep disappointment to him.

“Had I only started sooner,” he used to exclaim. “I might have been a born Irishman.”