(96) Characters in the comedy which Fanny was then engaged upon.-Ed.

(97) Sir Philip Jennings Clerke-ed,

(98) The Rev. John Delap, D.D., born 1725, died 1812.  He was a man “of deep learning, but totally ignorant of life and manners,” and wrote several tragedies, two or three of which were acted, but generally without success,-ed.

(99) Mrs. Piozzi (then Mrs. Thrale) relates this story in her “Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson.”  “I came into the room one evening where he [Johnson] and a gentleman [Seward], whose abilities we all respect exceedingly, were sitting.  A lady [Miss Streatfield], who walked in two minutes before me, had blown ’em both into a flame by whispering something to Mr. S-d, which he endeavoured to explain away so as not to affront the doctor, whose suspicions were all alive.  ‘And have a care, sir,’ said he, just as I came in, ’the Old Lion will not bear to be tickled.’  The other was pale with rage, the lady wept at the confusion she had caused, and I could only say with Lady Macbeth—­ ’Soh! you’ve displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting With most admired disorder.’-Ed.

(100) The following note is in the hand-writing of Miss Burney, at a subsequent period.  The objection of Mr. Crisp to the Ms play of ‘The Witlings,’ was its resemblance to Moliere’s ’Femmes Savantes,’ and consequent immense inferiority.  It is, however, a curious fact, and to the author a consolatory one, that she had literally never read the ‘Femmes Savantes’ when she composed ’The Witlings.’”

(101) Mr. Rose Fuller.-Ed.

(102) Anthony Chamier, M.P. for Tamworth, and an intimate friend of Dr. Burney’s.  He was Under Secretary of State from 1775 till his death in 1780.  We find him at one of Dr. Burney’s famous music-parties in 1775.  Fanny writes of him then as “an extremely agreeable man, and the very pink of gallantry.” ("Early Diary,” vol, ii. p. 106.)-Ed.

(103) Afterwards Sir William Weller Pepys, Master in Chancery, and brother of the physician, Sir Lucas Pepys.  He was an ardent lover of literature, and gave “blue-stocking” parties, which Dr. Burney frequently attended.  Fanny extols his urbanity and benevolence.  See “Memoirs of Dr. Burney,” vol. ii. p. 285.-Ed.

(104) His dog.-Ed.

(105) Mrs. Pleydell was a friend of Dr. Burney’s, and greatly admired for ber beauty and the sweetness of her disposition.  She was the daughter of Governor Holwell, one of the survivors from the Dlac Hole of Calcutta.-Ed.

(106) Mr. Thrale was Member of Parliament for Southwark.-Ed.

(107) Samuel Foote, the famous actor and writer of farces,-ed.

(108) Lady Diana Spencer, eldest daughter of Charles, second Duke of Marlborough.  She was born in 1734, married in 177 to Vicount Bolingbroke, divorced from him in 17b8, and married soon after to Dr. Johnson’s friend, Topbam Beauclerk.  Lady Di was an amateur artist, and the productions of her pencil were much admired by Horace Walpole and other persons of fashion.  Elizabeth, Countess of Pembroke, was the sister of Lady Di Beauclerk, being the second daughter of the Duke of Marlborough.-Ed.