FOOTNOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
[1] See _Samuel Richardson: a bibliographical Record of his literaryCareer_, by William Merritt Sale (New Haven, 1936), pp. 49-50.
[2] _Hints of Prefaces for Clarissa_, p. [13], 13.
[3] Postscript (fourth edition), p. 370.
[4] Forster MSS., XV, f 84, May 3, 1750.
[5] Ibid., f 85.
[6] [6], ... Warburton's Preface is reproduced in _Prefaces to Fiction_,With an Introduction by Benjamin Boyce, Augustan Reprint SocietyPublication Number 32 (Los Angeles, 1952).
[7] Postscript (fourth edition), p. 367.
[8] Preface (first edition) Vol. I, vi.
[9] '_Pleasantry_, (as the ingenious Author of Clarissa says of a Story)_should be made only the Vehicle of Instruction_. _The Covent-GardenJournal_, Number 10, 4th February, 1752. 'If entertainment, as Mr.Richardson observes, be but a secondary consideration in a romance ...it may well be so considered in a work founded, like this, on truth.'_Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon_ (London, 1755), The Preface, pp.xvi-xvii.
[10] Postscript (fourth edition), p. 349.
[11] _Hints of Prefaces_, p. [2], 2.
[12] Postscript (fourth edition), p. 359.
[13] _Hints of Prefaces_, p. [8], 7.
[14] Ibid., p. [9], 8.
[15] Ibid., p. [8], 7.
[16] Ibid., p. [9], 8.
[17] Postscript (fourth edition), p. 366, footnote (a).
[18] See Lawrence Marsden Price, 'On The Reception of Richardson inGermany', _JEGP_, XXV (1926), 7-33.
[19] _Pamela_ (London, 1741), Vol. I, vii. See _Samuel Richardson'sIntroduction to Pamela_, edited by Sheridan W. Baker, Jr., AugustanReprint Society Publication Number 48 (Los Angeles, 1954).
[20] Postscript (fourth edition), p. 366.
[21] _Pamela_ (London, 1741), second edition, Vol. I, xviii.
[22] Postscript (fourth edition), p. 351.
[23] _The Poetics_, I, iv, in _Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric_(Everyman's Library) (London, 1953), p. 8.
[24] _Monsieur Bossu's Treatise of the Epick Poem_ (London, 1695), p.114. Le Bossu's _Treatise_ was first published in France in 1675.Compare, for example, Richardson's use of the term 'episodes' (_Hints ofPrefaces_, p. [4], 4) with the _Treatise_, Book II, chapters II-VI.
[25] Op. cit. The Preface to the Reader (unpaginated).
[26] _The Moral Characters of Theophrastus ... To which is prefix'd ACritical Essay on Characteristic-Writings_ (London, 1725), pp. 98-99.Reproduced, with an Introduction by Alexander H. Chorney, as AugustanReprint Society Publication Number 33 (Los Angeles, 1952).
[27] _The Jacobite's Journal_, January 2, 1747 [in mistake for 1748].Number 5. 'Such Simplicity, such Manners, such deep Penetration intoNature; such Power to raise and alarm the Passions, few Writers, eitherancient or modern, have been possessed of ... Sure this Mr. _Richardson_is Master of all that Art which Horace compares to Witchcraft ...' Also,March 5, 1748, Number 14. The letter, dated October 15, 1748, isreprinted in 'A New Letter from Fielding', by E. L. McAdam, Jr., _YaleReview_ (NS), XXXVIII (1948-49), 300-310.
[28] _Hints of Prefaces_, p. [12], 11.
[29] Forster MSS., Vol. XV, f 47.
[30] _Hints of Prefaces_, p. [12], 11.
[31] _Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in David Simple_(London, 1747), Vol. I, ix.
[32] _Hints of Prefaces_, p. [13], 13.
[33] Postscript (fourth edition), p. 365.