Chapter X: Part II: Being a Collection of Letters found in Mr. Campbell's Closet

By the Lady who wrote the foregoing sheets. Part III. Containing some Letters from Persons of Mr. Campbell's more particular Acquaintance.

[9] "The Pleasure with which you received my _Spy_ on the Conjurer, encourages me to offer you a little Supplement to it, having since my finishing that Book, had the opportunity of discovering something concerning Mr. Campbell, which I believe your Lordship will allow to be infinitely more surprizing than any Thing I have yet related." _The Dumb Projector_, 5. Mr. G. A. Aitken, in his introduction to Defoe's _Life and Adventures_, gives the two pieces unhesitatingly to Mrs. Haywood, while other students of Defoe,--Leslie Stephen, Lee, Wright, and Professor Trent,--are unanimous in their opinion that the first exploiter of the dumb wizard could have had no hand in the writing of these amplifications. The latest bibliographer of romances and tales, Mr. Arundell Esdaile, however, follows the B.M. catalogue in listing _The Dumb Projector_ under the convenient name of Defoe.

[10] No. 125, Saturday. 23 November, 1728.

[11] _The Female Spectator_, 1745, II, 246.

[11a] In 1734 appeared a compilation of tables for computing Easter, etc., entitled _Time's Telescope Universal and Perpetual, Fitted for all Countries and Capacities_ ... By _Duncan Campbell_. What connection, if any, this book had with the fortune-teller or with any of the persons connected with his biography appears not to have been determined.

[12] G.A. Aitken, Introduction to _The Fortunate Mistress_, viii.

[13] _The Fortunate Mistress; or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau_.... London: Printed for E. Applebee. 1740. p. 359. Pp. 300-59 are taken from _The British Recluse_.