[26] MS. note in Horace Walpole’s copy of Anticipation.
[27] Thomas Moore, Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence, ed. Lord John Russell, 1853-56, IV, 34.
[28] “Reminiscences.—No. IV. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, &c.,” Blackwood’s Magazine, XX, 209.
[29] The Royal Gazette, 17 March 1779.
[30] Though Johnson had disapproved of The Project, he thought Anticipation “a mighty fine thing.” So Boswell told Tickell at a dinner-party in April 1779 (Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle, ed. Geoffrey Scott and F. A. Pottle, Mount Vernon, N.Y., 1928-34, XIII, 232).
[31] XLVII, 1778, 566.
[32] Garrick, Private Correspondence, II, 322-323.
[33] Biographia Dramatica, I, 714.
[34] Hobby-Horses. Read at Batheaston, 1780, pp. 13-14.
[35] Ernest Law, The History of Hampton Court Palace, 1890-91, III, 318, 464.