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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.

[2]

The principal source for Maynwaring is John Oldmixon, The Life and Posthumous Works of Arthur Maynwaring, Esq., 1715.

[3]

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.

[4]

Correspondence of Richard Steele, ed. by Rae Blanchard (1941), p. 57n. Gladys Scott Thomson, The Russells in Bloomsbury, 1669-1771 (1940), passim.

[5]

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.

[6]

Maynwaring to the Duchess, [27, 29 September 1709], [January 1710?], Blenheim Mss. E28.

[7]

Maynwaring to the Duchess, [30 December 1709], Blenheim Mss. E27.

[8]

Blenheim Mss. E29. The manuscript of the letter to the Tatler is in Blenheim Mss. G1-15.

[9]

[7 November 1709], Blenheim Mss. E 26.

[10]

See Robert D. Horn, "Marlborough's First Biographer: Dr. Francis Hare," Huntington Library Quarterly, XX (1957), 145-62.

[11]

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.

[12]

Oldmixon, pp. 22-3, 73; Godolphin to the Duchess, 10, 14 September 1706, Blenheim Mss. E20; Corres. of the Duchess, I, 66-7.

[13]

The Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough in the Present War (1712).

[14]

Cf. pp. 194-5, 197, 203, 205, 281-3, with Lives, pp. 131-3, 135-6, 150-2.

[15]

Cf. pp. 25-6 with Lives, pp. 127-8.

[16]

Cf. pp. 27-8 with Lives, pp. 143-4.

[17]

In a second letter to a Tory-Member. (1711). Cf. p. 25 with Lives, p. 145.

[18]

There is a copy in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas. For copies of the French and German editions see Bibliographie zur Geschichte des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen und seiner Zeit, ed. Bruno Böhm (Vienna, 1943), numbers 746, 837.

[19]

Ibid., number 754.

[20]

I am indebted to Professor Robert D. Horn for this suggestion.