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[ The miserly guardian of Cecilia, in Fanny's novel. Among the “Fragments of the journal of Charlotte Anne Burney,” appended to the “Early Diary,” occurs the following passage, written at the end of 1782. “Fanny's Cecilia came out last summer, and is as much liked and read I believe as any book ever was. She had 250 pounds for it from Payne and Cadell. Most people say she ought to have had a thousand. It is now going into the third edition, though Payne owns that they printed 2,000 at the first edition, and Lowndes told me five hundred was the common number for a novel.” (“Early Diary,” vol. ii. P. 307.)—ED.]
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[ Richard Burke, the only son of the great Edmund. He died in 1794, before his father.—ED.]
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[ Sir Joshua Reynolds was then in his sixtieth year; he was born in 1723.—ED.]
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[ She copied pictures cleverly and painted portraits.—ED.]
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[ Probably the Hon. Thomas Erskine, afterwards Lord Chancellor.—ED.]