NOTESFUGITIVE WRITINGS
First republished inLiterary Remains, vol.II.p. 193. For another account of the fight and, more particularly, of the journey home, see P. G. Patmore’sMy Friends and Acquaintance,III.41,et seq.The fight (between Hickman, the ‘Gas-man’ and Bill Neat) took place on Dec. 11, 1821. For an account of Tom Hickman (who was thrown from a chaise and killed in the following December) see Pierce Egan’sBoxiana, where particulars will be found of all the ‘Fancy’ heroes referred to by Hazlitt in this essay.
First republished inSketches and Essays.
Republished inLiterary RemainsandWinterslow.
ON THE CONVERSATION OF LORDS
Published inSketches and Essays.
Published inSketches and Essays.
Published inSketches and Essays.
First republished inSketches and Essays, where it is said to have been written in Italy in 1825.
Published inSketches and Essays.
Republished inLiterary Remains.
Published inLiterary Remainswith omissions and a few additions. The additions are printed in the text within square brackets. In other respects the Essay is printedverbatimfrom the Magazine.
These two papers were republished inSketches and Essays(1839), but were omitted in the second edition (1852). Mr. W. C. Hazlitt restored them in his edition in Bohn’s Standard Library, where he states that they were written in Italy in 1825, and represent a conversation between the author, Landor and Captain Medwin.
Now republished for the first time. See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’sMemoirs, etc.,I.xxx.
First republished in the volume of Selections edited by Mr. Ireland, who states, apparently upon the evidence of dates and the nature of the subject, that this was the last essay which Hazlitt wrote. This cannot be certainly known, and it seems more likely that the essay on ‘Personal Politics’ (post, pp. 456–61) was written later. The essay on ‘Footmen’ appeared in a later number of theNew Monthly. Hazlitt died on Sept. 18, 1830.