To the end of his days Richardson continued to sit under the editorial shade -- _Sir Charles Grandison_ was “published” by the “editor of _Pamela_ and _Clarissa_” -- enjoying the sunshine of his authorship. His introduction to _Pamela_ and the care he took with it suggest more succinctly than anything else Richardson’s flirtation with his adorers, which is not at all unlike that of his so modest heroine. Sheridan W. Baker, Jr. University of Michigan [Footnote 1: William M. Sale, _Samuel Richardson, a Bibliographical Record_ (New Haven, 1936), p. 13.] [Footnote 2: The fourth carries “the Second Edition” before the new introductory letters; the fifth changes to “the Present Edition.”] [Footnote 3: A translation of Abbé Noel Antoine Pluche: _The History of the Heavens_, 2 vols. (1740). (William M. Sale, _Samuel Richardson: Master Printer_ [Cornell, 1950], p. 193.)] [Footnote 4: William M. Sale, _Samuel Richardson, a Bibliographical Record_, p. 15; William M. and Alan D. McKillop, _Samuel Richardson_ (Chapel Hill, 1936), p. 42.] [Footnote 5: McKillop, pp. 301-2. Richardson had printed the _Miscellany_ between 1733 and 1736.] [Footnote 6: Richardson mentions other letters but does not print them. Hill’s reference to “The Gentleman’s Advice” on page xxii is to a letter from Benjamin Slocock, who commended _Pamela_ from his pulpit in St. Saviour’s, and thus helped provoke Henry Fielding. (Sale, ibid., p. 17.)] [Footnote 7: McKillop, p. 49.] [Footnote 8: For this and other information concerning the Forster collection of Richardson’s correspondence, I am indebted to Mr. Arthur Wheen, Keeper of the Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.] [Footnote 9: _The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson_ (London, 1804), I, 53-55.] [Footnote 10: _The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, Esq._ (London, 1753), II, 221. Letter dated January 23, 1741.] [Footnote 11: Hill, _Works_ II, 292.] [Footnote 12: Barbauld, I, 63-64.] [Footnote 13: Barbauld, I, lxxviii.] [Footnote 14: _The History of Henry Fielding_, I, 313.] [Footnote 15: Barbauld, I, lxxvi.] [Footnote 16: McKillop, p. 42.] CHANGES 1. ... _here; and writes with the more Assurance of Success, as an _Editor_ may be allowed to judge with more Impartiality than is often to be found in an _Author_._ 2. _But Difficulties having arisen from different Opinions, some applauding the very Things that others found Fault with, we have found it necessary to insert the _Praises_ in the following Letters, with the critical Remarks; because the Writer has so kindly mix’d them, that they cannot be disjoin’d (however earnestly the Author of the Piece desire’d it) without obscuring, and indeed defacing, all the Spirit of the Reasoning._ 3. _The following Objections to some Passages in Pamela were made by an anonymous Gentleman, in a Letter from the Country._