[3]. Mrs. Draper called Sterne the Bramin in allusion to his priestly character; and he kept up the fiction by addressing her as the Bramine.
[4]. Compare the letters to Miss Lumley with the Journal for April 15, 16, 19, 26.
[5]. Article on Sterne in the Dictionary of National Biography.
[6]. The London Times for July 4.
[7]. No. CVIII in this edition.
[8]. Seven Letters written by Sterne and his Friends, edited by W. Durrant Cooper (London, printed for private circulation, 1844). The letter Thackeray thought blasphemous is evidently the one addressed to John Hall-Stevenson from Coxwold on December 17, 1766.
[9]. See note to Letter CVIII.
[10]. Cornhill Magazine for November 1860.
[11]. See Letter CXLIV.
[12]. Athenæum, 30 March, 1878.