The conversations had originally appeared in the New Monthly
Magazine, also published by Colburn.
REFERENCES TO:
Countess of Blessington to Peter George Patmore, [December? 1832] in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal
Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their
Unpublished Letters. 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854).