Abbreviations
For the manuscript materials quoted in this book, I have retained original spelling and punctuation wherever possible to convey the flavour of the scribal mode. Cross-outs and insertions, however, are not recorded, and I have expanded the occasional abbreviation that might have been difficult to decipher otherwise. For the most commonly referenced manuscript collections in this study, I have used the following abbreviations:
- Add. MS
British Library Additional Manuscript
- BLARS
Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service
- Bodl. Ms. Eng. Poet.
Bodleian Library English Poetry Manuscript
- Ms. Bodl.
Bodleian Library Manuscript
- Brotherton
Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds
- Mo
Montagu Collection, Huntington Library
- Carter Unpublished Letters
Elizabeth Carter, 1717–1806: An Edition of Some Unpublished Letters (2005)
- Correspondence of Delany
Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany (1861)
- Correspondence of Dodsley
The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley 1733–1764 (1988)
- Correspondence of Gray
The Correspondence of Thomas Gray (1935)
- Correspondence of Richardson
The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (1804)
- Correspondence on Grandison
Correspondence Primarily on Sir Charles Grandison (1750–1754), Vol. 10 of The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (2015)
- Correspondence with Edwards
Correspondence with George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards, Vol. 2 of The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (2014)
- Correspondence with Hill
Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill Family, Vol. 1 of The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (2014)
- Letters between Carter and Talbot
A Series of Letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot (1809)
- Letters of Johnson
The Letters of Samuel Johnson (1992)
- Letters of Montagu
The Letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu, with Some Letters of her Correspondence (1809–13)
- Letters of Shenstone
The Letters of William Shenstone (1939)
- Letters to White
The Letters to Gilbert White of Selborne from … the Rev. John Mulso (1906)
- Memoirs of Carter
Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter (1807)
- Posthumous Works of Chapone
The Posthumous Works of Mrs Chapone (1807)