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Updated: May 7, 2025

In the same month Fielding appears as attending a "Meeting of the Partners in the Champion," held at the Feathers Tavern, on June 29. The list of the partners present at the Feathers is given as follows: Present Mr Fielding Mr Nourse Mr Hodges Mr Chappelle Mr Cogan Mr Gilliver Mr Chandler The business recorded was the sale of the "Impressions of the Champion in two Vollumes, 12'o, No. 1000."

G. M. Godden - Henry Fielding: a Memoir

Murphy speaks vaguely of "a large number of fugitive political tracts;" but unless the Essay on Conversation, advertised by Lawton Gilliver in 1737, be the same as that afterwards reprinted in the Miscellanies, there is no positive record of anything until the issue of True Greatness, an epistle to George Dodington, in January 1741, though he may, of course, have written much anonymously.

Austin Dobson - Fielding