² The accounts of Hawkins and Piozzi are included in E. H. Mikhail (ed.), Goldsmith: Interviews and Recollections (London: St Martin’s Press, 1993), 30–4, 53–5; other versions of events can be found in several of the passages brought together in G. S. Rousseau (ed.), Goldsmith: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974).