After recommending _Pamela_ from his pulpit sometime before 6 January 1741, Dr. Benjamin Slocock (1691-1753) earned the undeserved reputation of having been paid by Richardson for this praise (see Eaves and Kimpel, _Samuel Richardson_, pp. 123-24).
The third (duodecimo) edition of _Pamela_, published 12 March 1741, is virtually the same in content and collation as the second edition, published less than a month earlier (see William Merritt Sale, Jr., _Samuel Richardson: A Bibliographical Record_ [New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1936], pp. 18-19).
An attack on the various promises made by Richardson on the title page of _Pamela_.
An attack on _Pamela_'s "Preface by the Editor." Concerning these objections, the "Introduction" to _Pamela's Conduct in High Life_ finds fault with the author of _Pamela Censured_: "I shall pass by his Contradictions with Regard to the Character he draws of the Editor, or as he will have it _Author_, who appears in his Party-colour'd Writing a very _artful, silly_ Writer, a Man of fine Sense, and excellent in his Method of conducting the whole Piece, but at the same time vain, ignorant, and incorrect" (I, xiii).
The "certain _Noble Lord_" is probably either Sir Arthur Hesilrige or Lord Gainsborough (see McKillop, _Samuel Richardson_, pp. 27-29).
Quotation from the "Abstract of a second Letter from the Same Gentleman" in the "Introduction to this Second Edition." The "complemental" friend is Aaron Hill.
Paraphrase of Richardson's "Preface by the Editor."
Colley Cibber (1671-1757), the "worthy Gentleman" who then presided over the muses as poet laureate, frequently mentions his own vanity in _An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian_ (1740).
Advertised during the spring of 1741, the first French translation of _Pamela_ did not appear until the end of October 1741 (see McKillop, _Samuel Richardson_, p. 92). Jean Baptiste de Freval, author of "_To the Editor of the Piece intitled_ Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded," probably had at least some hand in this French translation (see Paul Dottin, _Samuel Richardson_ [Paris: Perrin et Cie., 1931], p. 117).
Partially a paraphrase, partially a quotation of "_To my worthy Friend, the Editor of_ Pamela, _&c._"