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Notes
T. C. Duncan Eaves and Ben D. Kimpel, "The Composition of Clarissa and its Revisions before Publication," PMLA, 83 (May, 1968), 416-28.
See William M. Sale, Jr., Samuel Richardson: A Bibliographical Record of His Literary Career with Historical Notes (1936), p. 48.
John Carroll, ed. Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson (1964), pp. 86-87. Richardson to Aaron Hill, 10 May 1748.
Although problems of spelling, abbreviation, etc. are not usually attributed to the author, the problem is more complex in this instance. Richardson was both author and printer, and given his remarkable thoroughness in revising, I seriously doubt that he did not have a hand in these matters as well.
Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754); The Augustan Reprint Society (1950), pp. [3]-[4].
See W. R. Keast, "The Two Clarissas in Johnson's Dictionary," Studies in Philology, 54 (1957), pp. 429-39.
Richardson lists pages 250 and 286 of Volume II, but see also these changes in the second edition: Vol. I: 39, 80-81, 85, 126; II: 83, 137, 173, 218, 258, 260, 263, 264, 265, 268, 300 and many others.
2nd ed., II: 21, 25, 146, 241, 264, 279, 293; III: 39, 100, 133, 142, 153, 155, 159, 164, 167, 246, 366; IV: 66.
See Richardson to Lady Bradshaigh, no date, Carroll, pp. 167-68; and Richardson to Sarah Chapone, 2 March 1752, Carroll, pp. 203-204.
2nd ed., I: 106, 111, 130-33, 134-36, 143; II: 209; III: 94-95, 98; IV: 6-7, 48, 49, 51, 52, 68, 96, 104.
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