Transcriber’s Note

This is the second volume of Biographia Epistolaris. The indexrefers to both volumes. However, only those pages in the present volumecould be linked to their references. These include those in theAppendix, but not in the Preface, which appeared in the first volume.

Volume 1 can be found at Project Gutenberg with the following address:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8210

There were a number of minor corrections made, which are described inthe Notes to be found at the end of this text.

As described in the end notes, ellipses occasionally are usedtypographically to elide names. These have been converted to long dashes:e.g., J——

Footnotes have been gathered at the end of the text, renumbered to beunique, and have been linked for convenient access.