[76] The Girlhood of Maria Josepha Holroyd (Lady Stanley of Alderley), 1897, 2nd edn. pp. 229-30. Mrs. Barrett (Diary and Letters, 1892, iv. 476) puts the income “for a considerable time” at about £125, so that it must have been supplemented in some way.
[77] Abdolonime is a gardener of Sidon in a five act comedy by M. de Fontenelle.
[78] Mr. E. S. Shuckburgh, in Macmillan’s Magazine for February, 1890, pp. 291-98.
[79] Mrs. Ellis thought she detected in Camilla a shaft aimed at the philandering Colonel. “They [men] are not like us, Lavinia. They think themselves free, if they have made no verbal profession; though they may have pledged themselves by looks, by actions, by attentions, and by manners, a thousand, and a thousand times” (Camilla, 1796, iv. 42-3).
[80] Lamb’s sonnet was first published in the Morning Chronicle, 13th July, 1820, upon the appearance of Sarah Burney’s tale of Country Neighbours. The author is indebted for knowledge of this poem to the courtesy of Mr. E. V. Lucas, at pp. 82-3, vol. v., of whose very valuable edition of Lamb’s works it is printed. Lamb also addressed a sonnet to Martin Charles Burney, Admiral Burney’s son. It is prefixed to vol. ii. of his Works, 1818. Martin Burney, a barrister, and a dear friend of Lamb, is also mentioned in Elia’s “Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading.” His mother is thought to have been “Mrs. Battle.”
[81] For reasons connected with the future tenancy of the house, Mr. Locke’s offer of a site in Norbury Park itself had finally been declined.
[82] The house, Camilla Lacey, still exists; but altered and enlarged. When Thorne wrote his Environs of London in 1876, it belonged to Mr. J. L. Wylie, and contained many interesting Burney relics. It is now in possession of Mr. Wylie’s nephew, Mr. F. Leverton Harris, M.P. for Tynemouth.
[83] In “A Burney Friendship” (Side-Lights on the Georgian Period, by George Paston, 1902, pp. 31-32), there is an interesting extract from one of Mme. D’Arblay’s letters describing the young Alexandre’s triumphs at “the principal école of Passy.”
[84] Moore’s Life of Lord Byron, 1844, 147. Moore corrects this in a note. But it shows that Johnson’s alleged revision of Cecilia must have been current as a rumour long before Macaulay asserted it upon internal evidence in 1843.
[85] The arrangement was, that she was to receive £1500 in three payments, spread over a year and a half. If 8000 copies were sold she was to have £3000.