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It must be understood that these are not previously unknown verses but rather unrecorded printings, by Miss Knapp, of known verses. I give vol. no., year, pages of WM followed by item nos. in Knapp: 3 (1775), 327 (#112, #447); 4 (1776), 157 (#392), 215 (#405), 327 (#364); 5 (1777), 103 (#41), 218 (#329), 328 (#287), 329 (#396), 496 (#404), 665 (#215), 666 (#385), 667 (#386); 6 (1778), 106 (#272), 278 (#216), 331 (#456), 439 (#406), 440 (#283), 673 (#313, #314); 7 (1779), 162 (#199), 431 (#458, #210, #146, #47).

[3]

Gerald M. Berkowitz, David Garrick, a Reference Guide (1980), begins his bibliography with items from 1741, doubtless unaware of the pieces in 1740. There are other lacunae in this Reference Guide.

[4]

See J. D. Hainsworth in RES, n.s. 26 (1975), 50-55.

[5]

G. W. Stone, Jr. and G. M. Kahrl, David Garrick, a Critical Biography (1979).

[6]

For Rust, see The Letters of David Garrick, ed. David M. Little and George M. Kahrl, 3 vols. continuously paged (1963), p. 1269, and for Sir Thomas Mills (below), see Little and Kahrl, p. 828.

[7]

Ananda Vittal Rao, Culcutta, 1934.

[8]

See John W. Derry, Charles James Fox (1972), p. 208, for the Whig toast at Fox's successful 1784 campaign: "Buff and Blue and Mrs. Crewe." The poem to Mrs. Crewe was reprinted in the Nov. 1783 WM (pp. 581-582).

[9]

See Derry, Charles James Fox, pp. 50-51. Derry does not mention any of the three poems under discussion.

[10]

See Some Materials Towards Memoirs of the Reign of King George II, by Lord John Hervey, ed. Romney Sedgwick (1931), III. 829-830.

[11]

See J. H. Jesse, Memoirs of Celebrated Etonians (n.d.), I. 180.

[12]

Editor, The Poems of Jonathan Swift, 2nd ed. (1958, 1966), II. 578.

[13]

The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, ed. Sir Harold Williams (1963-65), I. 338, 349; II. 66 and Alumni Dublinenses . . . (1924), pp. 15 and 795-796. However, George P. Mayhew has suggested Dr. Francis Andrews, Provost of Trinity College (PQ, 1974, 213-221). See Pat Rogers, ed. Jonathan Swift, The Complete Poems (1983), pp. 863-865 for a full discussion of the various versions of the poem. Rogers tentatively ascribes The Friends to Richard Griffith, but gives no evidence for his identification.

[14]

There are many more lacunae in Woods's Reference Guide.

[15]

Samuel Johnson in the British Press (1976), p. 186.

[16]

None of the three letters discussed is listed in the Johnson bibliography edited by James L. Clifford and Donald J. Greene (1970).

[17]

John Nichols in the Gentleman's Magazine for February 1807 (pp. 80-82) and James Bindley in the European Magazine for the same date (pp. 83-86).

[18]

Jesse Adele Gilmer, "Steady Reed: The Life and Literary Career of Isaac Reed, Esquire [1742-1806]," 1971, University Microfilms, pp. 21-22. Hereafter Gilmer.

[19]

Gilmer, Steady Reed, p. 22.

[20]

See my "Isaac Reed and the European Magazine," SB, 37 (1984), 210-227.

[21]

The August 16, 1781, St. James's Chronicle has a letter signed C. D. introducing a letter on Ossian.

[22]

"Henry Layng, Assistant in Pope's Odyssey," pp. 77-82.

[23]

See pp. 28-30, 90-91, 121-122, 180-181, and 251-255.