Footnotes 1. “Two Hundred and Fifty Years Ago”; see Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (Works 29:384–96). Pbd. in three parts in Leigh Hunt's Journal,7 Dec. 1850, 1 (no. 1): 6–7, 7 Dec. 1850, 1 (no. 3): 37–38, and 11 Jan. 1851, 1 (no. 6): 85–86; see also TC to JAC, 23 Nov. 1850. TC added a note to the republished version: “Found recently in Leigh Hunt's Journal, Nos. 1, 3, 6 (Saturday 7th December 1850 et seqq.). Said there to be ‘from a Waste-paper Bag’ of mine. Apparently some fraction of a certain History (Failure of a History) of James I., of which I have indistinct recollections. (Note of1857.)” (Works 29:384).
2. Vol. 4 of the cheap edn. of Critical and Miscellaneous Essays was announced in the Athenaeum (24 Oct.) as to be pbd. 31 Oct., and then (on 31 Oct.) as postponed to mid-Nov.; see Chapman & Hall's Advertisements.
3. See TC's footnote referring to his article (Works 12:262).
4. In the MS, the question mark is written above “iv” and “so-and-so” is overscored; see the Revision History for a pdf of the
typographical version found at CL 33:86.
5. For the map of Cleve and Jülich, see Works 12:opp. 252. In exchange for supporting the Pragmatic Sanction (1724), which guaranteed Maria Theresa's rights as the inheritor and ruler of all Habsburg possessions, Kaiser Karl VI promised
Friedrich Wilhelm that he would look favorably on Hohenzollern claims to the Rhineland territory of Cleve, which included
the duchy of Jülich. The Austrian failure to honor this promise was Frederick II's justification for his attack on Silesia
in 1740.
6. See Works 12:opp. 252.
7. Larkin recalled his difficulty in finding a map of Prussia before the reign of Frederick II: “Neither from Carlyle's words,
nor from any maps in his possession (all most excellent maps for modern purposes) could I at all make out what were the actual
limits of Prussia when Frederick came to the throne. Nor could Carlyle himself help me in the matter. … And at last I found,
in a collection of old maps in the King's Library at the British Museum, the very map I wanted. It was a very rude affair.
But there, plainly daubed in, was a rude outline of the old Prussian kingdom; and Carlyle's story about the matter became
as clear as daylight. By this fortunate discovery, I was enabled to show the boundaries of Prussia, as they were when Frederick
came to it; as they were when he left it; and as they were at the time of writing. … The following memorandum [this letter
of 16 Sept.] will at least serve to show that the map-making business was now steadily progressing” (Larkin, BQR 42–43). The map is probably F. L. Güssefeld's General-Charte über die sämmtlichen Königlich Preussischen Staaten (Dessau, 1794) (MS: King's Lib. Maps 110.14). For the map, “kingdom of PRUSSIA,” showing boundaries in 1740 and in 1858, see end of Works 14 (after 14:413). For the map of Prussia showing boundaries in 1740, 1786, and 1815, see Works 19:opp.321.
