1.Quoted from the English translation in The European Magazine, March, 1784. Consult Raynal, Histoire Philosophique et Politique (Book III, new edition, Paris, 1780).

2.A vignette of the view was made for The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction (July 9, 1831).

3.Mrs. Draper called Sterne the Bramin in allusion to his priestly character; and he kept up the fiction by addressing her as the Bramine.

4.Compare the letters to Miss Lumley with the Journal for April 15, 16, 19, 26.

5.Article on Sterne in the Dictionary of National Biography.

6.The London Times for July 4.

7.No. CVIII in this edition.

8.Seven Letters written by Sterne and his Friends, edited by W. Durrant Cooper (London, printed for private circulation, 1844). The letter Thackeray thought blasphemous is evidently the one addressed to John Hall-Stevenson from Coxwold on December 17, 1766.

9.See note to Letter CVIII.

10.Cornhill Magazine for November 1860.

11.See Letter CXLIV.

12.AthenÆum, 30 March, 1878.

13.For spurious letters, see the introduction to the first volume of Letters and Miscellanies in this edition.

14.From the original edition.

15.Lord Bathurst.

16.From the original edition.

17.The letters to Eliza are without date. The first letter belongs to January, 1767; and the second to January or February; the last eight were written during the week or thereabouts that preceded Mrs. Draper’s departure for India (April 3, 1767).

18.Miss Light afterwards married George Stratton, Esq., in the service of the East India Company at Madras.

19.A maker of musical instruments.

20.By the newspapers of the times it appears that the Earl of Chatham, East Indiaman, sailed from Deal, April 3, 1767.

21.The Journal to Eliza, or The Continuation of the Bramines Journal—Sterne’s phrase written above the first entry—is printed just as Sterne left it, with its wild chronology and all its vagaries in spelling and punctuation. This descriptive title-page, as well as the Journal itself, is in Sterne’s own hand.

22.The mistake in date is obvious.

23.Sunday fell on the 12th in April 1767.

24.Sterne evidently intended to write “for those my Imagination surrounds thee with.”

25.One of the famous concerts at Carlisle House under the management of Mrs. Theresa Cornelys.

26.Just as Sterne sometimes refers to himself as the Bramine, so he here carelessly addresses Eliza as the Bramin.

27.Only the first clause can belong to the twenty-third.

28.A Sentimental Journey.

29.This is probably a slip for “certainly,” though Sterne may have intended “for a certainty.”

30.This letter is probably lost. Consult Letter CXLI.

31.Sterne apparently intended “is quickly wrote in three words.”

32.Erasure.

33.Robert Hay Drummond. Consult Letters LXVI., LXXXIV., and CI.

34.Evidently a slip for that.

35.Dr. Jemmet Brown, whom Sterne met at Scarborough. Consult Letter CLV.

36.Consult Letter CLXIII.

37.Mr. Gibbs made this version from the rough draft.

38.Probably, Mr. Gibbs thought, Sir George Macartney, to whom Sterne addressed Letter CLXII.

39.Some friend in England formerly in the Indian service.

40.The letters ru in this word have been altered from something else.

41.The c in this word has been altered from s.

42.A few lines of the manuscript are lost here.

43.Some lines are lost.

44.Thomas Hodges, Governour of Bombay (1767–71). His predecessor was Charles Crommelin (1760–67).

45.Some lines are lost.

46.Sterne’s widow and daughter.

47.Thomas Becket, the publisher.

48.Here and elsewhere the manuscript is worn away.

49.In the manuscript “desired” is written above “hinted.”

50.Supply: “let me return to England.”

51.For the meaning of the sentence, substitute if they for in that.

52.A daughter to the Drapers.

53.Probably an aunt to Mrs. Draper.

54.Eliza Étoit donc trÈs-belle? Non, elle n’Étoit que belle.

55.For the original French, see the Histoire Philosophique et Politique (new edition, Vol. II., Bk. III., 1780).