Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript Page 4

  NOTES TO POSTSCRIPT

  p. 368, 1. 31--p. 369, 1. 10:

  This passage is part of Richardson's new material for his revisedPostscript. What he wrote in this paragraph, however, was not reproducedcompletely or accurately in either the third or the fourth editions, ineach of which it appears in different but equally incorrect versions.W.M. Sale has offered a convincing explanation of how the mistakes inprinting came about, and suggests that the passage should read asfollows:

  She was very early happy in the conversation-visits of her learned and worthy Dr. Lewen, and in her correspondencies, not with him only, but with other Divines mentioned in her last Will. Her Mother was, upon the whole, a good woman, who did credit to her birth and her fortune; and was able to instruct her in her early youth: Her Father was not a free-living, or free-principled man; and _both_ delighted in her for those improvements and attainments, which gave her, _and them in her_, a distinction that caused it to be said, that when she was out of the family, it was considered but as a common family.

  [_Samuel Richardson: a bibliographical Record of his Literary Career_(New Haven, 1936), 59-61].