Ned House calls my attention to a peculiarly cussed little blunder—a blunder easily made, & yet one which at first glance seems one next to impossible to make. I have made Hendon a Baronet, some sixty years before Baronets were invented.

I can change that, & make him a knight, at cost of only the delay & trouble of destroying & re-stereotypingⒶemendation some four or five lines scattered here & there in the book at wide intervals. Only that one word will require changing, I think. Don’t you think we’d better do it?

Hold on—there are two baronets, yes three: for Hendon’s father & younger brother are baronets. I can’t make a knight inherit  his a knight’s title; so here is a devil of a lot of impossible alteration before me. It can’t be done. Ⓐemendation

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Yes, there is one way. I think the first Baronetcy occurs in this way: Miles Hendon, having rescued the prince, is waiting on him at dinner in the hostelry on London Bridge, & beguiles the time by recounting his own history. The prince asks Miles if he is noble. The response is that his father is of the tail of the nobility, he being a Baronet* &c &c.

written on a separate slip of paper, pasted to the page, and circled:

‸Footnote.

*I created all the baronets that occur in this book. My plates were electrotyped & ready for the press before it recurred to my memory that in England there were no baronets in those days.—M.T.‸

Footnote.

*After the plates of this book were ready for the press, it I chanced to remember that in England at that time, there were not yet any baronets. But it was too late to change the plates & make the correction. Now, therefore, wherever a baronet occurs in these pages, I ask the reader to kindly remember that I created him, & ought in simple right & justice to have the praise & credit of it.—M. T. Ⓐemendation

There—if you jam in that little note at the bottom of the page on which the first baronet occurs, the difficulty is overcomeⒶemendation. But I wouldn’t put it away back in the appendix where nobody would see it. Say—can this be done?

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I’ve found the printed page, & have succeeded in providing the r necessary room on it for the foot-note, I think. Will it answer?