[39a] “That is, to the next page; for he is now within three lines of the bottom of the first” (Deane Swift).
[39c] Joshua Dawson, secretary to the Lords Justices. He built a fine house in Dawson Street, Dublin, and provided largely for his relatives by the aid of the official patronage in his hands.
[39d] He had been dead three weeks (see pp. [14], [25]).
[39e] In The Importance of the Guardian Considered, Swift says that Steele, “to avoid being discarded, thought fit to resign his place of Gazetteer.”
[40a] As Swift never used the name “Stella” in the Journal, this fragment of his “little language” must have been altered by Deane Swift, the first editor. Forster makes the excellent suggestion that the correct reading is “sluttikins,” a word used in the Journal on Nov. 28, 1710. Swift often calls his correspondents “sluts.”
[40b] Godolphin, who was satirised in Sid Hamel’s Rod (see p. [4]).
[40c] No. 230.
[40d] “This appears to be an interjection of surprise at the length of his journal” (Deane Swift).