[13]. For spurious letters, see the introduction to the first volume of Letters and Miscellanies in this edition.
[14]. From the original edition.
[15]. Lord Bathurst.
[16]. From the original edition.
[17]. The letters to Eliza are without date. The first letter belongs to January, 1767; and the second to January or February; the last eight were written during the week or thereabouts that preceded Mrs. Draper’s departure for India (April 3, 1767).
[18]. Miss Light afterwards married George Stratton, Esq., in the service of the East India Company at Madras.
[19]. A maker of musical instruments.
[20]. By the newspapers of the times it appears that the Earl of Chatham, East Indiaman, sailed from Deal, April 3, 1767.
[21]. The Journal to Eliza, or The Continuation of the Bramines Journal—Sterne’s phrase written above the first entry—is printed just as Sterne left it, with its wild chronology and all its vagaries in spelling and punctuation. This descriptive title-page, as well as the Journal itself, is in Sterne’s own hand.
[22]. The mistake in date is obvious.