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Notes
See Wilbur L. Cross, The History of Henry Fielding (1918), I, 118 and III, 359; F. Homes Dudden, Henry Fielding: His Life, Works, and Times (1952), I, 100, n. 1, and II, 1133; and Halsband, ed. Complete Letters, II, 96 and n. 1.
Dr. A. J. Rivero informs me that Lady Mary's copy of the published play (regrettably unannotated) is in the Bute Collection, the National Library of Scotland.
Fielding enrolled a second time at the University of Leyden on 22 February 1729 (N.S.), and he had left the city by 30 April (N.S.), on which date his creditors there—including his Italian tutor, his landlord, and his booksellers—began to take action against him. This episode, together with reasons for supposing that Fielding extended his continental travels to France and Italy, is discussed in Battestin, Henry Fielding: A Life (forthcoming).
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