In order to enable me to do this little job for you, I wish you would procure for me a file, if such a thing exists, of any newspaper from about 1740 to 1758, at which latter date the _Annual Register_ begins, as I remember.
So many little circumstances are mentioned in letters, and forgotten in history, that without some such guide, I shall make but blind work of it.

If it be necessary, I will go to the Museum and _grab_ them, as my betters have done before me.

My dear little Nony [Footnote: Mr.Croker's adopted daughter, afterwards married to Sir George Barrow.] was worse last night, and not better all to-day; but this evening they make me happy by saying that she is decidedly improved.
Yours ever, J.W.

CROKER.
Send me "Walpoliana," I have lost or mislaid mine.

Are there any memoirs about the date of 1743, or later, beside Bubb's?
That Mr.Croker made all haste and exercised his usual painstaking industry in doing "this little job" for Mr.Murray will be evident from the following letters: _Mr.Croker to John Murray_.
_December_ 27, 1820.
DEAR MURRAY, I have done "Lady Hervey." I hear that there is a Mr.Vincent in the Treasury, the son of a Mr.and Mrs.Vincent, to whom the late General Hervey, the favourite son of Lady Hervey, left his fortune and his papers.