[Footnote 355: See Nos. 79, 140; and Swift's "Journal to Stella," Nov.
3, 1711. A correspondent begged the _Spectator_ (No. 344) to "take
notice of an impertinent custom the women, the fine women, have lately
fallen into, of taking snuff."]
[Footnote 356: It has been suggested that Steele here alludes to Mrs. De
la Riviere Manley.]
[Footnote 357: Lord Hinchinbroke married Elizabeth, only daughter of
Alexander Popham, Esq. See Nos. 1, 5, 22.]
[Footnote 358: This was one of Steele's own letters to Miss Scurlock.
(See "Correspondence," 1809, vol. i. p. 93.) "Mrs. Lucy" is "Mrs.
Warren" in the original.]
[Footnote 359: "Hamlet," act iii. sc. 2.]
[Footnote 360: See No. 32.]
[Footnote 361: This letter is printed in Scott's edition of Swift's
works.]
[Footnote 362: See No. II.]
No. 36. [? STEELE.[363]
By Mrs. JENNY DISTAFF, half-sister to Mr. BICKERSTAFF.
From _Thursday, June 30_, to _Saturday, July 2_, 1709.
* * * * *
From our own Apartment, June 30.
Many affairs calling my brother into the country, the care of our
intelligence with the town is left to me for some time; therefore you
must expect the advices you meet with in this paper to be such as more
immediately and naturally fall under the consideration of our sex:
history therefore written by a woman, you will easily imagine to consist
of love in all its forms, both in the abuse of, and obedience to that
passion.
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