In a "Concluding Note" to "Grandison", Richardson writes: "It has been said, in behalf of many modern fictitious pieces, in which authors have given success (and "happiness", as it is called) to their heroes of vicious if not profligate characters, that they have exhibited Human Nature as it "is". Its corruption may, indeed, be exhibited in the faulty character; but need pictures of this be held out in books? Is not vice crowned with success, triumphant, and rewarded, and perhaps set off with wit and spirit, a dangerous representation?" In particular, Richardson is referring to novels of Fielding, his literary rival. This note was published with the final volume of "Grandison" in March 1754, a few months before Fielding left for Lisbon. Before Fielding died in Lisbon, he included a response to Richardson in his preface to "Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon".