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acknowledgments ix Works Frequently cited xiii introduction xv

Part I. Sterne’s Miscellaneous Works

sterne’s Memoirs 3 sterne’s Political Writings, 1741–1742 24

1. Broadside of August 31, 1741 55 2. “Query upon Query,” York Courant, October 27, 1741 56 3. Letter to the York Courant, November 10, 1741 (parts 1 and 2) 60 4. Broadside of November 27, 1741 64 5. Letter to the London Daily Gazetteer, December 2, 1741 65 6. Letter to the York Courant, July 27, 1742 66

A Political Romance 88 The “rabelaisian Fragment” 152 “Fragment inédit” 176 essay signed “hamlet” 205 “an impromptu” and Two epitaphs 213 appendix to the Miscellaneous Works: Pamphlets Preceding

A Political Romance 223

Part II. Sterne’s Subscribers, an Identification List 277

index to the Miscellaneous Works 575

PROOF

Volume IX of the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne edited by Melvyn New and W. G. Day