nly attempt to bring Hill's letter into his
already wavering line. In the fifth edition, however, he introduces this
letter with his only straight statement that an author, distinct from
the editor, is involved, an author who begged the editor not to include
flattery.

To the end of his days Richardson continued to sit under the editorial
shade -- _Sir Charles Grandison_ was "published" by the "editor of
_Pamela_ and _Clarissa_" -- enjoying the sunshine of his authorship.
His introduction to _Pamela_ and the care he took with it suggest more
succinctly than anything else Richardson's flirtation with his adorers,
which is not at all unlike that of his so modest heroine.

Sheridan W. Baker, Jr.
University of Michigan

[Footnote 1: William M. Sale, _Samuel Richardson,
a Bibliographical Record_ (New Haven, 1936), p. 13.]

[Footnote 2: The fourth carries "the Second Edition" before the
new introductory letters; the fifth changes to "the Present
Edition."]

[Footnote 3: A translation of Abbe Noel Antoine Pluche: _The
History of the Heavens_, 2 vols. (1740). (William M. Sale, _Samuel
Richardson: Master Printer_ [Cornell, 1950], p. 193.)]

[Footnote 4: William M. Sale, _Samuel Richardson,
a Bibliographical Record_, p. 15; William M. and Alan D. McKillop,
_Samuel Richardson_ (Chapel Hill, 1936), p. 42.]

[Footnote 5: McKillop, pp. 301-2. Richardson had printed the
_Miscellany_ between 1733 and 1736.]

[Footnote 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.)]

[Footnote 7: McKillop, p. 49.]

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 9: _The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson_ (London,
1804), I, 53-55.]

[Footnote 10: _The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, Esq._ (London,
1753), II, 221. Letter dated January 23, 1741.]

[Footnote 11: Hill, _Works_ II, 292.]

[Footnote 12: Barbauld, I, 63-64.]

[Footnote 13: Barbauld, I, lxxviii.]

[Footnote 14: _The History of Henry Fielding_, I, 313.]