The Journal to Eliza and Various letters by Laurence Sterne and Elizabeth DraperSterne, Laurence
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The Journal to Eliza and Various letters by Laurence Sterne and Elizabeth Draper
Sterne, Laurence
Draper, Elizabeth, 1744-1778; Novelists, English -- 18th century -- Correspondence; Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 -- Correspondence
A vignette of the view was made for _The Mirror of Literature,
Amusement and Instruction_ (July 9, 1831).
Footnote 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.
Footnote 4:
Compare the letters to Miss Lumley with the _Journal_ for April 15,
16, 19, 26.
Footnote 5:
Article on Sterne in the _Dictionary of National Biography_.
Footnote 6:
The London _Times_ for July 4.
Footnote 7:
No. CVIII in this edition.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 9:
See note to Letter CVIII.
Footnote 10:
_Cornhill Magazine_ for November 1860.
Footnote 11:
See Letter CXLIV.
Footnote 12:
_Athenæum_, 30 March, 1878.
Footnote 13:
For spurious letters, see the introduction to the first volume of
_Letters and Miscellanies_ in this edition.
Footnote 14:
From the original edition.
Footnote 15:
Lord Bathurst.
Footnote 16:
From the original edition.
Footnote 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).
Footnote 18:
Miss Light afterwards married George Stratton, Esq., in the service of
the East India Company at Madras.
Footnote 19:
A maker of musical instruments.
Footnote 20:
By the newspapers of the times it appears that the _Earl of Chatham_,
East Indiaman, sailed from Deal, April 3, 1767.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 22:
The mistake in date is obvious.
Footnote 23:
Sunday fell on the 12th in April 1767.
Footnote 24:
Sterne evidently intended to write “for those my Imagination surrounds
thee with.”
Footnote 25:
One of the famous concerts at Carlisle House under the management of
Mrs. Theresa Cornelys.
Footnote 26:
Just as Sterne sometimes refers to himself as the Bramine, so he here
carelessly addresses Eliza as the Bramin.
Footnote 27:
Only the first clause can belong to the twenty-third.
Footnote 28:
A Sentimental Journey.
Footnote 29:
This is probably a slip for “certainly,” though Sterne may have
intended “for a certainty.”
Footnote 30:
This letter is probably lost. Consult Letter CXLI.
Footnote 31:
Sterne apparently intended “is quickly wrote in three words.”
Footnote 32:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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