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102 Papers contributed to the Spectator by Addison and Steele. [Sept.1, 
bers fifty-two and fifty-three have no sig- 
nature affixed to them, but the letter 
on the Art of improving Beauty, in 
No. 53, is ascribed to Mr. John Hughes, 
and is supplementary to the one con- 
tained in No.33. From number fifty- 
four to eighty-six, the contributions are 
very irregular. Twelve bear the signa- 
ture of Steele, nineteen of Addison, 
and two, signed X, (67 and 77), are 
attributed to Eustace Budgell, Esq., a 
friend and relation of Addison. The 
letter dated from Cambridge, in No. 54, 
on a sect of philosophers, called Loungers, 
is ascribed by some to Mr. Laurence 
Eusden; by others to Parnell. It ap- 
pears certain, however, that Eusden was 
the author of a letter in No.78, dated 
from Cambridge, giving an account of 
a club of Ugly Faces, and another in 
No. 87, signed TT. on Coffee-house Idols. 
These were not the whole of Mr. Eus- 
den’s communications ; but they are all 
which we can now assign to him with 
any degree of confidence. Had the 
Spectator been no further indebted to 
him, it is hardly probable’ that his 
name would have been mentioned by 
Steele (No. 555) in the list of those 
to whom he was under peculiar obli- 
gations. Indeed Eusden himself, in No. 
78, speaks of “some things which he 
had before sent” for insertion in the 
Spectator; although we have no clue to 
any thing but the letter in No. 54, already 
alluded to. Budgell’s first paper was 
No. 67: for some time he was rather 
tardy in his contributions ; but when the 
work had_been established about a year, 
he regularly furnished Addison with a’ 
paper. once a week for four or five 
months together. At the expiration of 
this period a fit of silence came upon 
him; and during the last six months 
he contributed only one paper, No. 506. 
His signature was invariably the letter 
X; and the papers communicated by 
him during the publication of the first 
seven volumes, were twenty-eight in 
number. The eighth volume, which was 
conducted by Addison and himself, with- 
out the assistance of Sir R. Steele, con- 
tains no signatures.. (Biograph. Brit. 
vol. ii. Art. Budgell.) Two letters in 
No. 66, requesting the Editor’s remarks 
on Fine-Breeding as distinguished from 
Good-Breeding, the former signed Celi- 
mene, and the latter without any signa- 
ture, are claimed as Mr. Hughes’s. The 
letter in No.7] was written by James 
Hirst, a servant of the Hon. Edward 
Wortley’s; and took its rise from the 
following singular circumstance.—“ It 
happened one day, that in re-delivering 
a parcel of letters to his master, James 
by mistake gave him one which he had 
written to his sweetheart, and kept back 
Mr. Wortley’s. He soon discovered his 
error, and immediately hurried to his 
master to. retrieve it, but unfortunately 
for poor James, it happened to be the 
first that presented itself, and before his 
return Mr. Wortley had perused the 
enamoured footman’s love story. James 
entreated to have it returned, ‘ No, 
said Mr. Wortley, ‘ no, James, you shall 
be a great man: this letter shall appear 
in the Spectator. It was accordingly 
communicated to Steele, and published 
in James’s own words, ‘ Dear Betty, 
&e. (Atheneum, Vol. i. p.353.) Num- 
bers eighty-seven and eighty-eight were 
supplied by Steele, and eighty-nine and 
ninety by Addison. Number ninety- - 
one, containing the history of Flavia 
and Honoria, though it bears one of 
Steele’s editorial signatures, (R), was 
the production of Mr. Hughes. Of the 
next six papers (92-97), three were sup- 
plied by Addison and three by Steele ; 
but the letter signed Leonora, in No. 92,, 
reminding the Spectator of his promise 
to furnish a catalogue of books neces- 
sary to constitute a lady’s library, was 
written by a Miss Sheppard (afterwards. 
Mrs. Perry). A second letter, signed 
Parthenia, upon the same subject, ap- 
peared in No. 140, the former not hav- 
ing been sufficiently attended to by the 
Spectator. - This was the production of 
Miss Margaret Sheppard, sister to the 
above, who likewise wrote a letter, in- 
serted in No. 163, giving an account of ~ 
a disappointment in love. In this she 
adopted her sister’s signature of Leo- 
nora ; and it is not improbable that to. 
this lady’s letter the world owes the 
beautiful story of Theodosius and Con- 
stantia, which appeared in the very next 
paper (Monthly Repository, vol iv. p. 
303). The fie papers from number 
ninety-eight to number one hundred and 
two inclusive, were furnished, according 
to some copies, by Addison;, but. in Ton- 
son’s edition of 1744, I find that No. 
100 has no signature. Whether the 
original folio edition contained any I 
have no means of ascertaining; the 
copy to which I have access commencing 
only with No.179, and ending~ with 
No. 447.* 
On, 
* The paper immediately preceding this 
was the first number of the Spectator which 
paid the stamp duty to Government ; and’ 
the additional halfpenny appears to have in- 
duced 
