Barbauld's. But the first
paragraph Richardson has contrived to suit his editorial fiction.

The delightful story so gratified Mr. Richardson that he sent lively
little Harry Campbell ("the dear amiable boy") two books, an event
almost enough to finish him:

Out burst a hundred _O Lords!_ in a torrent of voice rendered hoarse
and half choaked by his passions. He clasped his trembling fingers
together; and his hands were strained hard, and held writhing. His
elbows were extended to the height of his shoulders, and his eyes,
all inflamed with delight, turned incessantly round from one side,
and one friend, to the other, scattering his triumphant ideas among
us. His fairy-face (ears and all) was flushed as red as his lips;
and his flying feet told his joy to the floor, in a wild and
stamping impatience of gratitude.[12]

The only other part of the introduction to _Pamela_ elsewhere in print
is the concluding poem. This, too, is Hill's, printed in _The Weekly
Miscellany_, February 28, 1741, along with his December 17 letter, and
collected with Hill's _Works_ (III, 348-350). This is the poem, it would
seem, of which Hill boasts that he has given "Pamela" a short "e" as
Richardson intended, asserting that "Mr. Pope has taught half the women
in England to pronounce it wrong."[13] Pope in his _Epistle to Miss
Blount_ (line 49), had made the "e" long:

The gods, to curse Pamela with her prayers,
Gave the gilt coach and dappled Flanders mares,
The shining robes, rich jewels, beds of state,
And, to complete her bliss, a fool for mate.

Hill's lines are somewhat less successful. He dedicated them to "the
Unknown Author of _Pamela_" two months after Richardson had confessed
his authorship.

Richardson changes one line in the poem. In Hill's _Works_ it reads:
"Whence _public wealth_ derives its vital course." Richardson, a more
modern man perhaps, reads "_public Health_." His emendation, however,
improves Hill's metaphor concerning a blaze which is a pilot pointing
out the source of public wealth, which is drunk to prevent gangrene from
blackening to the bone. Further reflection led Richardson a year later
to change "vital" to "moral."

Throughout the letters in his introduction, Richardson made changes, all
largely stylistic. That Richardson removed the letters from the front of
his book in response to criticism -- as Cross[14] and others have
asserted -- is not quite accurate. He removed them from