Quotation from the "Abstract of a second Letter from the Same Gentleman" in the "Introduction to this Second Edition." The "complemental" friend is Aaron Hill.
10.21-12.5
Paraphrase of Richardson's "Preface by the Editor."
12.8
Colley Cibber (1671-1757), the "worthy Gentleman" who then presided over the muses as poet laureate, frequently mentions his own vanity in An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian (1740).
14.16
Advertised during the spring of 1741, the first French translation of Pamela did not appear until the end of October 1741 (see McKillop, Samuel Richardson, p. 92). Jean Baptiste de Freval, author of "To the Editor of the Piece intitled Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded," probably had at least some hand in this French translation (see Paul Dottin, Samuel Richardson [Paris: Perrin et Cie., 1931], p. 117).
15.2-10
Partially a paraphrase, partially a quotation of "To my worthy Friend, the Editor of Pamela, &c."
15.17-19.2