Note 271 — No. 91. [Steele.
Reading edition
In No. 58 of the Female Tatler Thomas Baker insinuated that Steele wrote the letter in No. 89 of the Tatler himself.
The following advertisement is subjoined to The General Postscript, No. 19 (Wednesday, November 9, 1709):
"Nick Doubt desires the public to take notice, that he did not bring that letter to Basket-hilt's maid, that begins, 'Isaac, you seem a very honest fellow;' and he's a double jackanapes that thinks he'd disturb the squire's 'lucubrations' with any such impertinent messages."