Note 1 — Introduction to Pamela
Reading edition
William M. Sale, Samuel Richardson, a Bibliographical Record (New Haven, 1936), p. 13.
2. The fourth carries “the Second Edition” before the new introductory letters; the fifth changes to “the Present Edition.”
3. A translation of Abbé Noel Antoine Pluche: The History of the Heavens, 2 vols. (1740). (William M. Sale, Samuel Richardson: Master Printer [Cornell, 1950], p. 193.)
4. William M. Sale, Samuel Richardson, a Bibliographical Record, p. 15; William M. and Alan D. McKillop, Samuel Richardson (Chapel Hill, 1936), p. 42.
5. McKillop, pp. 301-2. Richardson had printed the Miscellany between 1733 and 1736.
6. Richardson mentions other letters but does not print them. Hill’s reference to “The Gentleman’s Advice” on page xxii is to a letter from Benjamin Slocock, who commended Pamela from his pulpit in St. Saviour’s, and thus helped provoke Henry Fielding. (Sale, ibid., p. 17.)
7. McKillop, p. 49.
8. For this and other information concerning the Forster collection of Richardson’s correspondence, I am indebted to Mr. Arthur Wheen, Keeper of the Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
9. The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (London, 1804), I, 53-55.
10. The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, Esq. (London, 1753), II, 221. Letter dated January 23, 1741.
11. Hill, Works II, 292.
12. Barbauld, I, 63-64.
13. Barbauld, I, lxxviii.
14. The History of Henry Fielding, I, 313.
15. Barbauld, I, lxxvi.
16. McKillop, p. 42.