The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Baines Paul;

Author:Baines, Paul;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 1999-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Notes and references

1 See 'Testimonies of Authors' in The Dunciad, in Twickenham Edition, V, 33-34. See also J. V. Guerinot, Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope, 1711-1744: A Descriptive Bibliography (1969), passim.

2 Letter dated 5 September 1745; printed (with reply) in Douglas Duncan, Thomas Ruddiman (Edinburgh and London, 1965), pp. 159-165.

3 Gentleman's Magazine, 17 (1747): January, pp.24-26; February, pp.82-85; April, p. 189; June, pp.285-286; August, pp.363-366.

4 William Lauder, Essay, pp.27, 59, 74, 90, 115, 163.

5 Andrew Henderson, Furius; or a Modest Attempt towards a History of the Life and Surprising EXPLOITS of the Famous W. L. Critic and THIEF-CATCHER (1748).

6 See Michael Marcuse, 'The Gentleman's Magazine and the Lauder/Milton controversy', Bulletin of Research in the Humanities, 81 (Summer 1978), pp.179-209.

7 See Gentleman's Magazine, 17 (September 1747), pp.423-424; British Magazine, 2 (November 1747), p.490.

8 See Gentleman's Magazine, 17 (February 1747), p.82 and 18 (February 1748), p.68.

9 The letter was not printed until December 1750 (Gentleman's Magazine 20, p.536).

10 The General Evening Post, 25 January 1750. For the course of the 'detection' see Marcuse,'"The Scourge of Impostors, the Terror of Quacks": John Douglas and the exposé of William Lauder', Huntington Library Quarterly, 42 (1979), pp.231-261.

11 Watkins to Douglas, 26 October, 30 September 1750: British Library Add. Egerton MS 2185, ff.13-14, 11; Watkins to Bowle, 1 November 1750, transcribed into the latter's volume of Lauder's Essay and other pieces, British Library, 79.d.22.

12 Birch to Hardwicke, 3 and 17 November 1750: British Library Add. MS 35397, ff.315v, 320.

13 Bowle to Douglas, 22 November 1750: British Library Add. Egerton MS 2185, f.21.

14 To Douglas, 28 October 1750: British Library Egerton MS 2182, f. 14.

15 Letter dated 17 November 1750: British Library Add. MS 35397, f.320.

16 To Hardwicke, 3 November 1750: British Library Add. MS 35397. f.315v.

17 Douglas, Milton Vindicated, pp.26-27.

18 Douglas, Milton Vindicated, pp.33-35.

19 Douglas, Milton Vindicated, p.36.

20 Douglas, Milton Vindicated, pp.51-59.

21 Douglas, Milton Vindicated, pp.59-60.

22 Masenius gained a new lease of life from the controversy: see Sarcotis. Carmen. Auctore Jacobo Masenio S.J., edited by J. Dinouart (Paris, 1757); and La Sarcothée, translated by Dinouart (Paris, 1757). There was also an edition at London in 1771 which made reference to the controversy.

23 Douglas, Milton Vindicated, pp.73-74.

24 Lauder, Essay, pp.93-94.

25 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, edited by Thomas Newton, second edition, 2 vols (1750), II, 449-456.

26 See Marcuse, 'The Scourge of Impostors', pp.241-2, and the review of Douglas in The Scots Magazine, 13 (February 1751) pp.75-78 (Bowle quotes from the storm scene in Shakespeare's Lear, III.ii.). See also The Monthly Review, 3 (December 1750), p. 106; Mr Drake to Douglas, 29 November 1750, and Bowle to Douglas, 6 December 1750: British Library Add. Egerton MS 2185, ff.25, 27; anonymous. Pandemonium: or a New Infernal Expedition (1750); anonymous. The Progress of Envy (1751); and Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, VIII, 519-520.

27 Letters dated 17 December 1750 and 19 January 1751: A Series of Letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the Year 1741 to 1770, edited by Montague Pennington, 2 vols (1808), I, 245, 248.

28 Letter dated 14 February 1751: Series of Letters, I, 250.

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