... in Clarissa, and that he could not resolve in life: how to justify self-­exposure against the charge and fear of vanity, and how to make the uneasy transition from familiar to public communication. Notes 1.  Forster Collection, FC XI, fol.222. The majority of Samuel Richardson’s...

... Pope: “It is known that this celebrated Englishman lived and died publicly professing the Catholic Religion, and even at several places in this book he refers to himself as a Papist” (fol. 145r). He then continues by saying that, despite...

...-Davies 1. Henry St. John to Sir William Trumbull Geneva 23 May 1698 fols. 34 – 35 Geneva May ye 23 O:S: 1698/ Of all afflictions being separated from one’s friends is one of the greatest; and of all the pleasures such an absence will allow, writing...

..., and Sir Matthew Hale. V I have not included one letter previously attributed to St. John, dated 19 July 1705 (HMC, Downshire, vol. 1, part 2:840 – 41), and now cataloged as BL, Add. MSS 72540, fols. 11 – 12, though not as a St. John letter. An assess- ment based on handwriting cannot be made...

... with the illustrations, the author would like to thank Ms. Naomi Saito of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, and Dr. Norma Aubertin-Potter of the Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, and her staff. 1. British Library, Add. MS 46500, fol.104r. 2. The publisher...

..., and a discarded Player,” and gives a pension to “a broken down Swiss Fencing Master, two tradefall’n Jews and a poor Mahometan Pedlar” (fols.7v, 8r). Trustall’s military patriotism and his cul- tural credentials are established alongside his metropolitan Enlightenment tolerance. The reference to the Swiss...

.... In the decades that followed, their descendants argued in 1669, they had “joined natural born citizens in paying taxes, populating the city, living therein with their families and, after long residence, had acquired real property” (fol.1r-v). Further, they affirmed: Common sense also...

... of the fairest in Europe, holding up her head in the midst of the sea with Neptune for her guard and the reason for her sleeping securely. “ The streets,” Lassels writes, “are full of water” (fols. 322 – 25). It was he who said this long before Robert Benchley stole the phrase in the twentieth century...

... Neve, Monumenta Anglicana (London: W. Bowyer, 1717), 272. 11.  LMA, MR/R/R/019/11, 19, 22. 12.  James Vernon to Henry, Lord Capel, 29 June 1695, BL, Add. MS 40771, fol.37r. 13.  “List of the persons’ names to whom licences have been granted, pursuant to the act lately passed...

...” for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge Among Men , 29th Congress, 1st session (1845). 59. John Ingenhousz to Lord and Lady Holland, Marylebone Street, Golden Square, 24 December 1797, BL, Add. MS 51821. 58. William Drew to Lady Holland, Bridgewater, 7 November 1797, BL, Add. MS 51814, fols.46r...

... and Special Collections, Box 19, fol.7r. 9. Space precludes a full survey, but for evidence of a Tory adoption of the Bickerstaff voice, see [Anonymous], The Westminster Dream Relating to the Tryal of Dr. Sacheverell with an Interpretation: By Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq (London, 1710...

... (1996): 74–87, especially 75. 28.  Shelburne was “continually expressing his satisfaction at having his affairs in your hands.” John Paterson to John Fitzmaurice, 29 January 1750, BHA, S. 90, fol.109. Two months later, on 16 March 1750, Paterson thanked Fitzmaurice for his “readiness...

.... Denis de Coetlogon, n.d., [ca. June 1737], British Library Additional Manuscripts, 32690, fol. 323r, hereafter cited as BL, Add. MSS. 12. Samuel Johnson, The Idler 22 (16 September 1758), in The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 2 of “The Idler” and “The Adventurer,” ed. W. J...

... with them that they had been acquainted with” (letter to Mure, 14 Nov. 1771 [NLS ms. 4945, fol. 114 29. Univ. of Glasgow MS 507/28. 30. Letter to Mure, 14 Nov. 1771. 31. Letter to Mure, 6 Feb. 1772 (NLS ms. 4945, fol. 126) 32. Jardine even got away in the evenings to the theatre...

... not include the word Sunday, probably refers to that girls school (see also MCP, 200). 58. Presumably Daniel Robinson, at this time hairdresser to the younger princes and princesses (TABQCH, fol. 36919v and fol. 36926v). 59. The person to whom this pension was paid is not named. 60. When at Kew, George III...

... (12 January 1699), BL, Southwell Papers Add. MS 38,151, fol.3. 13.  Sir John Perceval to Philip Perceval, 14 April 1720, BL, Egmont Papers, Add. MS 47,029, fols.58–59. 150   Eighteenth-Century Life 14.  John Irwin, To the Nobility, Gentry, and Commonalty of Ireland (Dublin, 1720...

... of Kansas, shelf- mark Horn B42 v. The library also holds a canceled copy. With thanks to Elspeth E. Healey for her assistance. 7.  The song appears in Bodleian MS Mus b.1, fol.134v. This manuscript songbook in the hand of Wilson’s friend Edward Lowe contains the majority of Wilson’s songs. See...

... Birch, 1 February 1747/48, British Library, Add. MS 4303, fols.139–40. 16. Boyle to Birch, 12 March 1747/48, BL, Add. MS 4303, fols.141–42. 17. Boyle to Birch, BL, Add. MS 4303, fol.145. “Recd Decemb. 13th, 1748” is written in Birch's hand in the top right corner. 18. To date I have...

... of that work, a reworked account “Revised and Corrected by Friends” of the no longer extant journal that formed its basis, he declares his motivation as curiosity—“I came into these seas this second time more to Endulge my cureosity then to gett wealth” (BL Sloane 3236, fol...