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This list derives almost entirely from the Forster Collection; I have not
examined every surviving Richardson letter for signs of Barbauld's editing.
Nor have I listed every Barbauld-marked letter I have examined, for not
every Barbauld mark suggests an intention to edit. The 80 letters listed here
are all marked in ways similar to those that were printed.

Richardson-Hill Correspondence

MS	MS Length	ALB Dels	ALB Changes on MS
FC XIII.2, f 8	26	6.5	Adds heading, "A Hill to R"
f 10	38	7	none[83]
f 22	40	23	none[84]
f 31	39	none (SR has del entire letter, then marked it "stet")	Adds headings, "Miss Hills to R" and "NB This letter may come after all Aaron Hill's & immediately before Gilbert Hill's"; at end, adds signature, "Astrea Hill" and note, "in answer to a letter sending the 2st [sic] Vols of Pamela"
f 32	12	4	none
f 57	40	24	"PS*" in black ink on verso may be direction to copyist to append undeleted lines to a different letter
FC XIII.3, f 5	36	8	None. Previous edits by SR include large dels.
f 12	49	18	"R to AH" at head
f 13	35	17	* on recto may indicate intention to conflate.
ff 14-15	59	9	* on 14r and "PS*" on 15r appear to to indicate transfers of text.
f 16	30	6	none
ff 18-19	58	10 (a further 5.5 del, then stet)	"A Hill to R" at head; inserts name, "Carteret"; changes 1 word
f 41	36	14 (also SR dels)	"A H to R" at head; adds 2 words to fill a gap caused by a tear; * on verso appears to mark a passage for transfer to head of letter (marked by * on recto)
ff 57-58	98	a long note by SR at head, and a SR footnote, but no text	Inserts a footnote replacing the del SR footnote
f 93	25	entire text	none
f 124	31	11	Adds "R" to heading
FC XV.2, ff 74-76	97	15	Changes "I" to "we" (twice)

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Richardson-Young Correspondence

MS	MS Length	ALB Dels	ALB Changes on MS
Penn Historical Soc, MS Gratz 11/4	19	none	Brackets 6 lines (as if for selection; see n. 83 for similar marking by SR)

Susanna Highmore to Richardson

FC XV.2, f 12

Inserts 4 words to compensate for
cuts

Richardson-Edwards Correspondence

FC XII.1, f 9	17	4	none
f 11	15	5	none
ff 14-15	90	11	none
f 24	26	9	none
ff 27-28	60	24	none
ff 33-34	53	11	none
ff 39-40	49	5	none
f 58	58	23	none
f 75	41	22.5	none
ff 93-94	56	34.5	none
ff 134-135	65	30	none
f 144	36	7	none
f 154	39	8	none
f 166	35	12.5	Adds "R to E" at head
ff 167, 169[85]	54	7 at least; 17 more uncertain	Adds "E to R" at head, "X" in margin on 167v
ff 168, 182	49+	29 at least	ALB marks "X" in margin on f 168 (intending to conflate with above letter?)

Richardson-Wescomb Correspondence

FC XIV.3, f 71	34	8	Reduces close to "Your's &c"
ff 72-73	82	42	Inserts 2 words at head and 1 word in text
ff 74-75	71	22.5	Inserts 2 words, changes 2, capitalizes 1 (new sentence following a del)
f 104	43	5	none
ff 113-114	48	17	Adds 3 words, changes 4
ff 135-136	69	17	none
FC XIV.2, ff 9-10	65	37	none
ff 55-56	82	18	Changes 1 word
f 58	22	10.5	Adds heading, "Mrs Scudamore to R"

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Richardson-Bradshaigh Correspondence

FC XI, f 138	43	6	Adds "to R" to heading
ff 142-143	77	14	Adds "Lady Bradshaigh to R"; restores 2 disguised names
ff 145-146	55	14	Restores 2 names; heads letter "Lady Bradshaigh to R" in error, corrects to "Mrs Woodhurst to R"
ff 151-152	85	57	Restores 1 name
ff 157-158	119	44	Restores a name, moves closing, adds signature
ff 163-164	81	20	Dels disguised names, inserts closing formula
ff 165-166	153	83	none[86]
ff 173-174	53	31	Inserts 1 word to fill a gap
f 175	71	16 (plus 15 more del and then stet)	Adds heading
f 177	52	16	Adds heading
ff 178-179	104	18 (plus 11 more del and then stet)	Adds heading
ff 181-182	90	51	Adds heading
f 183	42	13	none
ff 185-186	105	62 (plus 9 more del and then apparently stet)	Changes 1 word
f 187	46	4	none
f 188	63	11	Adds heading
ff 190-191	71	29	none
ff 195-196	73	32	Adds heading
f 197	39	12(?)	Restores disguised name in heading
ff 203-204	72	37	Restores 2 names
ff 209-212	218	51	Adds heading
ff 213-216	237	105	Adds heading
ff 217-218	91	45	none
ff 223-224	78	49	Adds heading, moves signature
ff 225-226	117	64 (plus 3 more del and then stet)	Adds heading
f 234	58	1 (plus 6 more del and then stet)	Restores a disguised name
f 235	34	9	Adds, then dels, heading
f 236	48	32	Adds heading
f 237	22	5 (of which she stets 3)	Adds heading, restores a name
ff 257-258	73	42	Changes "him" to a name
ff 259-260	86	7	Moves date to head
f 261	54	19	Adds heading
ff 272-274	133	35	Adds 3 words to repair a cut

Richardson to Mrs Watts

Beinecke Library Gen MSS 237, Box 5, F 231	92	22	Dels 5 names; inserts "I," "my dear Sister," "a late" (replacing "this" in MS), & "friend" (replacing "Sister")
Princeton U L MS Taylor	156	11	none

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E. Pennington to Richardson

Princeton UL
MS Taylor

Dels a name; brackets 21 lines in
margin of last page, as if for transfer
elsewhere.[87]

[83]

This letter bears many marks by Richardson, including his red-ink bracket around
a paragraph and a note, "Transcribe to next Letter but one for ye Sentiments."

[84]

Fol. 22 is the beginning of Aaron Hill to Richardson, dated (in another hand) 12
April 1739; it does not correspond to the letter of the same date in Correspondence, 1:2223.
Eaves and Kimpel speculate that the printed text may be the latter part of the letter
beginning on f 22.

[85]

Fol. 169 has been cut across the top; part of this letter is missing.

[86]

On this letter, which is in Bradshaigh's hand, SR has changed the date and inserted
several short passages.

[87]

Richardson himself enclosed 35 lines in square brackets with a note, "Between [ ]
transcribed to Miss P."