[260] Ibid., vol. V, p. 358.
[261] The folio manuscripts of Miss Elstob's Homilies are now preserved among the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum. See Bibliothecæ Lansdownianæ, nos. 370-74, and Bibliothecæ Harleiana, vol. I, p. 323, no. *27.
[262] Hearne's Collections, vol. VI, p. 255. Mr. Rowe Mores said that Miss Elstob had once had a genteel fortune, but that she had "pursued too much the drug called learning, and in that pursuit failed of being careful of any one thing necessary."
[263] "The learned Saxonist, Mrs. Elstob, was one, among many others, who about this period [1714] experienced the new Bishop's bounty." (Nichols: Illustrations of Literary History, vol. III, p. 227.) Mr. Thomas Seward, Bishop of Lichfield, knew Miss Elstob and was one of the contributors to her support. (Nichols: Literary Anecdotes, vol. IV, p. 135.)
[264] Nichols: Literary Anecdotes, vol. IV, p. 137.
[265] Letters of Mrs. Delany, 1st Series, vol. I, p. 263. Mrs. Chapone was evidently a gifted letter-writer and it is with a sense of great loss that we read of the accidental burning of many of her letters in 1860. (Letters of Mrs. Delaney, 1st Series, vol. I, p. 263 n.)
[266] Letters of Mrs. Delany, 1st Series, vol. II, p. 31.
[267] Ibid., vol. II, p. 14.
[268] Letters of Mrs. Delany, 1st Series, vol. II, p. 18.
[269] Ibid., vol. II, p. 56