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  • Richardson on Pope and Swift
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John Carroll

Assistant Professor of English, University College, University of Toronto

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1. Letter from Cheyne to Richardson, April 20, 1740, The Letters of Dr. George Cheyne to Samuel Richardson (1753–1743), ed. C. F. Mullets, University of Missouri Studies, XVIII (Columbia, Mo., 1943). 59.

2. Richardson discusses Cheyne’s advice in a letter to Stephen Duck, [October], 1741, Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster Collection, XVI, i, £ 74. Hereafter, references to material from the Forster Collection will be prefaced by the letters FC.

3. Cheyne to Richardson, Letters of Cheyne, ed. Mullett, 121. This letter is quoted by A. D. McKillop, Samuel Richardson, Printer and Novelist (Chapel Hill, 1936), 38–39.

4. Permission to quote from this letter in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection has been granted by The New York Public Library.

5. Richardson to Thomas Edwards, January 27, 1755, FC XII, i, ff. 130–1.

6. Richardson’s negotiations with Reich are described in detail in two letters to Lady Bradshaigh dated November 19, 1757, and January 2, 1758, FC XI, ff. 221–2 and 227–9.

7. Richardson to Mrs. Sophia Westcomb Scudamore, September 1, 1758, FC XIV, ii, ff. 5–6.

8. Richardson to Lady Bradshaigh, May 23, 1758, FC XI, f. 242.

9. Words between single asterisks indicate words and phrases which were apparently inserted by Richardson when revising the “extract.” Words between daggers were stroked out in his revision.

10. James Leake, who was Richardson’s brother-in-law and a bookseller in Bath.

11. Richardson alludes to a story recounted by Pope from a life of Homer attributed to Herodotus. According to Pope’s version of the tale, a poverty-stricken Homer was hospitably entertained in Cuma by a leather-dresser named Tychius. Homer returned the tradesman’s kindness by immortalizing his name as the maker of the shield of Ajax. The story is told in the notes to Book VII of Pope’s translation of the Iliad (London, 1716), II, 229.

12. Cheyne mentioned this plan in a letter to Richardson dated February 12, 1741, Letters of Cheyne, ed. Mullett, 65.

13. Perhaps William Warburton.

14. At the bottom of the sheet, the upper portions of some letters can be seen; apparently the last line has been cut off.

15. Pope to Lyttleton, December 12, 1738, Correspondence of Alexander Pope, ed. George Sherburn (Oxford, 1956), IV, 208.

16. Letters of Cheyne, ed. Mullett, 65.

17. Richardson to Warburton, FC XVI, i, f. 89. This letter is printed by McKillop, 65–6.

18. Warburton to Richardson, December 28, 1742, Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, ed. Anna Barbauld (London, 1804), I, 134.

19. Richardson to Hill, April 2, 1743, FC XIII, iii, f. 6.

20. It is probable that Lewis Theobald was a friend of Richardson, who is listed as a subscriber to Theobald’s edition of Shakespeare. See McKillop, 307.

21. Richardson to Hill, January 19, 1743/44, FC XIII, iii, f. 16.

22. Hill to Richardson, July 29, 1746, FC XIII, iii, ff. 49–50.

23. Richardson to Hill, August 5, 1746, FC XIII, iii, f. 53.

24. Richardson to Hill, [April?], 1743, FC XIII, iii, f. 12. The letter is quoted by McKillop, 307.

25. W. M. Sale, Jr., Samuel Richardson, Master Printer (Ithaca, 1950), 129.

26. Richardson to Edwards, April 21, 1753, FC XII, i, f. 78.

27. McKillop, 165–6.

28. Clarissa (Shakespeare Head Edition), II, 12. Hereafter, all quotations from the novels of Richardson will be given the pagination of this edition.

29. Richardson to Edwards, March 29, 1756, FC XII, i, f. 158. Quoted by McKillop, 165–6.

30. Clarissa, II, 155–6.

31. Richardson to Young, January 14, 1757, Monthly Magazine, XLII (1816), 332–5.

32. Richardson to Miss Highmore, no date, Gentleman’s Magazine, LXXXVI (1816), I, 506–8. Internal evidence would suggest that the letter was written in the summer 1756.

33. Sir Charles Grandison, IV, 370.

34. Ibid., I, 353.

35. Richardson to Lady Bradshaigh, April 22, 1752, Correspondence of Richardson, VI, 173–4.

36. The accusation is made in a letter which Richardson wrote to Hill’s daughters, August 4, 1749, FC...

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