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It appears impossible that this letter should belong to January, 1782, as Lady Hertford did not die till November in that year (10 Nov., see 'Complete Peerage'). NOTES ON BOOKS:-Burke's History of the Landed The exact date, therefore, of the letter would Gentry Flagg's Yoga; or, Transformation-Fisher's be 11 Nov., as it was written on the day folWalmsley's Unclaimed Money'-A Barrister's Collec-lowing Lady Hertford's death. Lady Hertford is again alluded to as living on pp. 589 and 598. 'Cathedral Church of Hereford '-Reid's 'Auchterarder' tion of Stories.' Notices to Correspondents. Notes. THE HOWARD MSS. THE following notes refer to Appendix, Part VI. of the Fifteenth Report of the His torical MSS. Commission : P. xxxiv. For "Deffands" read Deffand. P. 28. Aselby=Aislabie. See Index, s. v. 'Aislaby.' P. 204, note. For "Augusta " read Amelia. Princess Amelia became Ranger of Richmond Park on the death of Lord Orford in 1751. See Horace Walpole, 'Memoirs of George II.'; also ‘Annual Register,' 1758. P. 211. Count Gisour-Comte de Gisors, eldest son of Maréchal de Belleisle, killed at the battle of Crevelt in 1758. 66 PICKWICKIAN MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.' UNDER this title Mr. Percy Fitzgerald has sent forth a supplement to his 'History of Pickwick,' thus proving that his interest in this "special" subject has abated nothing. The following may show that here, as in the 'History' (see 8th S. xi. 341), there is much P. 217. For "you" read your. P. 229. For Varcy read Varey. (See inaccuracy. pp. 268 and 431.) P. 236. Menil-Meynell (probably). P. 242. For "Stoneheir" read Stonehewer (Secretary to the Duke of Grafton). P. 270. For "Delapri " read Delapré. P. 271, note t. The name is certainly Mie Mie. See Horace Walpole's 'Letters' (Cunningham's ed.), where it is variously spelt as follows: "Mie Mie," vol. vi. p. 259; La Mimie," vol. vii. p. 262; "Mimy," vol. vii. p. 395. P. 284. For "Harry" read Horry. P. 10. "Hocussing of voters" may pass, though it was not the voters who were hocussed. Cricket dinners still furnish surprising results, in spite of Mr. Fitzgerald's optimism. P. 12. "Gone, too, is half-price at the theatres." Surely not. In many theatres and music-halls the custom is still common. The Queer Client did not live in Clifford's Inn; he was an inmate of the Marshalsea. It is difficult to think how a mistake of this kind could arise. Clifford's Inn is not men |