[113] Giffard, Lady Martha: Her Life and Letters, p. 27.
[114] Osborne, Dorothy: Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple. "Introduction."
[115] That the letters narrowly escaped destruction is indicated by the following letter written by Mrs. Sarah Osborne in 1770 to Sir George Osborne, Dorothy's great-nephew: "Mrs. Temple did lend me these letters to read with injunction not to shew them. I very much doubt if she would send them to London.... Most of these letters were in the tender stile with sensible sentiments, indeed I believe Mrs. Temple burnt them after I had read them, she said she would, as indeed I think she should, such letters can never be exposed to advantage, there were many wrote after her marriage, they soon grew tame and flat to what was before."
[116] Giffard, Lady: Her Life and Letters, pp. 38-39.
[117] Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, p. 100.
[118] Ballard gives the arguments in favor of Lady Pakington.
[119] Johnstone, Grace: Leading Women of the Restoration, p. 101.
[120] Percy Society Publications, vol. XXII. See also biographies of the Countess of Warwick by C. Fell Smith (1901) and Mary Palgrave (1901).
[121] Term Catalogues.
[122] Autobiography (Percy Society Publications, vol. XXII, p. 21).