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T. C. Duncan Eaves and Ben D. Kimpel, "The Composition of Clarissa and its Revisions before Publication," PMLA, 83 (May, 1968), 416-28.

M. Kinkead-Weekes, "Clarissa Restored?" R.E.S. New Series, 10 (1959), 156-71.

Forster MS XV, 2, fols. 43-44.

Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, abridged by George Sherburn, (1962), p. xv.

Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, abridged by Philip Stevick, (1971), p. xxiii.

Kinkead-Weekes, p. 170.

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.

Carroll, p. 245.

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.

Erich Poetzsche, Samuel Richardson's Belesenheit (Kiel, 1908), pp. 94-96.

Sale, Samuel Richardson: A Bibliographical Record, p. 53.

2nd ed., II: 21, 25, 146, 241, 264, 279, 293; III: 39, 100, 133, 142, 153, 155, 159, 164, 167, 246, 366; IV: 66.

Carroll, p. 73.

Carroll, p. 101.

Carroll, p. 73.

Richardson to Edward Young, Monthly Magazine, 36 (1813), 419-20.

Carroll, p. 200.

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.

Eaves and Kimpel, "The Composition of Clarissa and its Revisions before Publication," pp. 416-28.

Eaves and Kimpel, p. 422. See also their note on the dating of this letter.

Eaves and Kimpel, "Richardson's Revisions of Pamela," Studies in Bibliography, 20 (1967), 66.

Eaves and Kimpel, "The Composition of Clarissa and its Revisions before Publication," p. 428.

Richardson to Lady Bradshaigh, 26 October 1748, Carroll, pp. 96-97.