1. Pierre Quillacq, or M. Dessein (or Dessin) as he was called, gained a
great reputation from Laurence Sterne’s allusions to him and his hotel in A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (AA2, Jour. and
Corr. description begins Journal and Correspondence of Miss Adams, Daughter of John Adams, … Edited by Her Daughter [Caroline Amelia (Smith) de Windt], New York and London, 1841–[1849]; 3 vols. Note: Vol. [1], unnumbered, has title and date: Journal and Correspondence of Miss Adams, 1841; vol. 2 has title, volume number, and date: Correspondence of Miss Adams … Vol. II, 1842; vol. [3] has title, volume number, and date: Correspondence of Miss Adams … Vol. II, 1842, i.e., same as vol. 2, but preface is signed “April 3d, 1849,” and the volume contains as “Part II” a complete
reprinting, from same type and with same pagination, of vol. 2, above, originally issued in 1842. description ends , 1:8; A Sentimental Journey, ed. Gardner D.
Stout, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1967, P. 87, 336–338).