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Notes
Mist's Weekly Journal, 14 July 1722. "Dr. Johnson adds that Steele in some of his exigencies put the papers in pawn." George A. Aitken, Life of Richard Steele (1889), II, 39n. See also Steele's Periodical Journalism 1714-1716, ed. by Rae Blanchard (1959), p. 296.
The principal source for Maynwaring is John Oldmixon, The Life and Posthumous Works of Arthur Maynwaring, Esq., 1715.
Blenheim Mss. E25. This fragment is written on two pages of a bifolium. The other two pages are blank. I am grateful to the Duke of Marlborough for permission to quote from manuscripts in his muniments.
Correspondence of Richard Steele, ed. by Rae Blanchard (1941), p. 57n. Gladys Scott Thomson, The Russells in Bloomsbury, 1669-1771 (1940), passim.
Ibid. pp. 57n., 277n.; Maynwaring to the Duchess of Marlborough, [11 July 1712], in Correspondence of the Duchess of Marlborough, 2nd ed. (1838), II, 78-80.
See Robert D. Horn, "Marlborough's First Biographer: Dr. Francis Hare," Huntington Library Quarterly, XX (1957), 145-62.
For some account of Smallwood see Robert D. Horn, "The Authorship of the First Blenheim Panegyric,' Huntington Library Quarterly, XXIV (1961), 297-310. There are several letters from Smallwood to Marlborough in the Blenheim archives.
Oldmixon, pp. 22-3, 73; Godolphin to the Duchess, 10, 14 September 1706, Blenheim Mss. E20; Corres. of the Duchess, I, 66-7.
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