[1] The Commander Edward Dawson here alluded to is, I am sorry to say, one of the many of those who have joined the Majority since these pages were commenced.
[2] Since these lines were written, Sir H. Stephenson is another of my old friends who has passed away.
[3] Alas! since these lines have been in the printer’s hands, that dear friend of my youth, my much-beloved cousin—Constance Manners—has passed away from us.
