• 1. The following lines of verse are written lengthwise on the first flyleaf of Richardson's copybook (Edinburgh University Library, Laing Mss III, 356) in another hand (not that of the copyist who transcribed Cheyne's letters).

These lines form the sixth stanza of ‘To Health’ byHester (née Mulso) Chapone (1727–1801), as published in her Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (1775), p. 131. A copy of the entire poem is to be found amongst Richardson's extant papers (FM 14/42). The youngMulso was a poet, essayist, literary critic, epistolary writer and conversationalist (see ODNB). She became associated with Richardson's circle after writing a series of critical letters to him in 1750–1 responding to Clarissa in which she upheld female emotional autonomy and a woman's right to exercise her own judgement in refusing an arranged marriage. These widely circulated letters made her something of a cause célèbre, and were eventually published as part of her posthumously collected Works in 1807.

• 2. The following obituary notice, entered in sequence as item ‘LXXXIII’ at the end of Richardson's copybook, is in the same hand as that which transcribed Cheyne's letters. This notice appeared in the Daily Gazetteer for Saturday 16 April 1743 (no. 2439). It was later reprinted anonymously in Dr. Cheyne's Account of Himself and of his Writings: faithfully extracted from his various works, 3rd edn (1744), p. 34, and subsequently reproduced inWarner (p. 219). For Aaron Hill's suspicion (probably correct) that it was composed by Richardson, see his letter to the novelist of 25 April 1743.