[20] Postscript (fourth edition), p. 366.
[21] Pamela (London, 1741), second edition, Vol. I, xviii.
[22] Postscript (fourth edition), p. 351.
[23] The Poetics, I, iv, in Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric (Everyman's Library) (London, 1953), p. 8.
[24] Monsieur Bossu's Treatise of the Epick Poem (London, 1695), p. 114. Le Bossu's Treatise was first published in France in 1675. Compare, for example, Richardson's use of the term 'episodes' (Hints of Prefaces, p. [4], 4) with the Treatise, Book II, chapters II-VI.
[25] Op. cit. The Preface to the Reader (unpaginated).
[26] The Moral Characters of Theophrastus ... To which is prefix'd A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings (London, 1725), pp. 98-99. Reproduced, with an Introduction by Alexander H. Chorney, as Augustan Reprint Society Publication Number 33 (Los Angeles, 1952).
[27] The Jacobite's Journal, January 2, 1747 [in mistake for 1748]. Number 5. 'Such Simplicity, such Manners, such deep Penetration into Nature; such Power to raise and alarm the Passions, few Writers, either ancient or modern, have been possessed of ... Sure this Mr. Richardson is Master of all that Art which Horace compares to Witchcraft ...' Also, March 5, 1748, Number 14. The letter, dated October 15, 1748, is reprinted in 'A New Letter from Fielding', by E. L. McAdam, Jr., Yale Review (NS), XXXVIII (1948-49), 300-310.
[28] Hints of Prefaces, p. [12], 11.
[29] Forster MSS., Vol. XV, f 47.