Inconsistencies in accents (e.g. tete a tete vs. tÊte À tÊte) and hyphenation (e.g. ball room vs. ball-room) have not been corrected. Variant spellings have also been retained.

Minor typographical errors (e.g. missing punctuation, incorrect or duplicate letters) have been corrected without note.

The following changes were also made to the text:

p. 130: missing ‘at’ added (too lazy to part it at all)

p. 255: two asterisks changed to ellipsis (before he begins any other....)

p. 266: italics added to ‘I’ and removed from ‘or’ ( I have the honor to acquaint you; Permit me to assure you; or,)

p. 292: italics removed from ‘of’ (largesse of)

p. 332: off to of (get rid of)