[10]. Tom Jones, Book ix. Introduction. [Back]
[11]. See infra, chap. xi. [Back]
[12]. Fifty years ago a portrait of the beautiful heiress, in the character of Sophia Western, was still preserved at the house of Bellairs, near Exeter, then the property of the Rhodes family. The present ownership of the picture has, so far, eluded inquiry. [Back]
[13]. Fielding, Austin Dobson, p. 202. [Back]
Footnotes for Chapter 2
[1]. Joseph Andrews, Book iii. Chap. iii. [Back]
[2]. Miscellanies,ed. 1743, vol. ii. p. 62. [Back]
[3]. In the Miscellanies of 1743. [Back]
[4]. Fielding, Austin Dobson, 1907. App. iv. [Back]
[5]. What appears to be the original autograph of the above letter is now (1909) in the library of the Boston Athenaeum, having been presented by Mr C. P. Greenough. [Back]