1
A more copious extract of this letter is subjoined to the author’s preface.
2
The part communicated consisted of the first fourteen chapters.
3
A blank space about ten characters in length occurs here in the original edition [Publisher’s note].
4
The copy which had received the author’s last corrections breaks off in this place, and the pages which follow, to the end of Chap. IV, are printed from a copy in a less finished state. [Godwin’s note]
1
A more copious extract of this letter is subjoined to the author’s preface.
2
The part communicated consisted of the first fourteen chapters.
3
A blank space about ten characters in length occurs here in the original edition [Publisher’s note].
4
The copy which had received the author’s last corrections breaks off in this place, and the pages which follow, to the end of Chap. IV, are printed from a copy in a less finished state. [Godwin’s note]
5
The introduction of Darnford as the deliverer of Maria in a former instance, appears to have been an after-thought of the author. This has occasioned the omission of any allusion to that circumstance in the preceding narration. EDITOR. [Godwin’s note]
