D 26. v. 96, 2: 249; diary for 30.iii.06, O 4: 78b. I assume that the «Paraíso anglo-galo» is a bilingual Milton. On Jovellanos' translation see the notes by José Benito Álvarez Buylla in Caso, Poesías, 514-520. Jovellanos' poetic mentor Cadalso had praised Milton and translated some passages from Paradise Lost in his Suplemento al papel intitulado Los eruditos a la violeta, Obras 1: 181-193, Madrid, 1803. The English poet's reputation was not, of course, confined to Spain. Lessing calls Paradise Lost «die erste Epopee nach dem Homer», Laokoon, XIV.

Oración sobre el estudio de las ciencias naturales, O 1: 336b. In the opinion of some eighteenth-century Spaniards, Franklin seems to have ranked with Buffon, Fénelon, and Condillac. See Herr, 45, 195, 361 n. 50, 373.

D 12.i.94, 1: 372; Caso, Poesías, 17 n. 1.

D 12.xi.93, 1: 330, shows that Kelly was in Oviedo at this time. On Alexander Jardine (Jardines or Hardings in the editions of Jovellanos) see, in addition to the numerous diary entries, some of which are cited in my text, the fol. sources: Edith F. Helman, Some consequences of the publication of the Informe de ley agraria by Jovellanos, Estudios hispánicos: homenaje a Archer M. Huntington, 262-265, Wellesley, Mass., 1952; W. H. Askwith, List of officers of the royal regiment of artillery from the year 1716 to the year 1899, 9-10, 4th ed., London, 1900; Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee, eds., The dictionary of national biography, London, 1937-1938, s. v. Jardine, Alexander.

On the letter's being addressed to Jardine see Somoza, Inventario, 44; Helman, Some consequences, 262 n. 20; Ángel del Río, «Estudio preliminar», D 1: 85; Sarrailh, 109 n. 2. All agree on the approximate date; I hope on another occasion to explain my calling the letter a draft prepared on 21 May 1794.

D 1: 428. The edition reads: «Carta al conde de Cabarrús sobre el derecho de propiedad y sistema de Godwind» [sic], but this is only an instance of Somoza's capricious italicizing. The entry for 14 May, 1: 427, shows that two works are involved: William Ogilvie's Essay on the right of property in land, of which more presently , and William Godwin's «system».

William Godwin, Enquiry concerning political justice and its influence on morals and happiness, ed. F. E. L. Priestley, 2: 459 n., Toronto, 1946.

D 2: 253, 255, 261. A Tratado de la decadencia y ruina del sistema de hacienda de Gran Bretaña was advertised in the Gazeta of 24 January 1797. Herr, 361 n. 51.

The «Burke» which Jovellanos lent to his friend Caveda on 21 November 1795 may have been the Reflections; shortly thereafter Caveda sent Jovellanos a copy of the abbé de Barruel's Histoire du clergé pendant la révolution françoise, indicating a mutual but hardly unexpected interest in the French Revolution. On the other hand, Caveda was also a playwright with whom Jovellanos corresponded about tragedy and versification, so that the «Burke» may have been the Philosophical inquiry which was sent to Jovellanos by the Marqués del Campo. D 2: 186, 192, 303, 314.

D 2: 340. Mrs. Helman, Some consequences, 264, states that «actually he remained until 1799 when he was finally expelled by the Spanish authorities». She also supposes the loss of his letters to Jovellanos and those from Jovellanos to him, apparently assuming that the former were in the archives of the Real Instituto Asturiano and were destroyed in 1936 (262 n. 20). I am not sure that they were ever in the archives.