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To Dr T. Warton, May 31, 1769. Sending a Baskerville Virgil as a present to the College Library To Boswell, Sept. 9, 1769. Praise of his Corsican Journal, not of the History. Glad he is going to be married

To the same, Nov. 9, 1769. Asking him to Streatham To Dr Farmer, Mar. 21, 1770. Asking his aid for G. Steevens' Shakspearian Catalogue

To Dr T. Warton, June 23, 1770. Asking for Shakspearian Notes

To Barber, Sept. 25, 1770. Wishes to know about him

To Dr T. Warton, Sept. 27, 1770. Formerly misrepresented him as to King Lear. Wishes to

have his correct view

To Barber, Dec. 7, 1770. Has ordered clothes for him. He is to stay with Mrs Clapp for the holidays

To Langton, Mar. 20, 1771. His Pamphlet on the Falkland Isles stopped by Ministry. Goldsmith and Percy mentioned

To Boswell, June 20, 1771. Advice, "Mind your studies-make your lady happy," etc.

To Reynolds, July 17, 1771. His portrait of Johnson admired at Lichfield

To Langton, Aug. 29, 1771. Engaged in revising his Dictionary. Lady Rothes "has disappointed. Queen and Mrs Thrale missed their reckoning this summer. Hope to accept invitation

To Reynolds, Feb. 27, 1772. Enclosing one for Mr Banks, with a motto for a goat. Alludes to a talk with Dr Solander

To Langton, Mar. 14, 1772. Congratulations on Lady Rothes' little man." Miss Langton's viaticum

To Boswell, Mar. 15, 1772. Glad Boswell is coming to town, and as an advocate. Will help him. His regard. Dr Beattie's wife a very lovely woman. Health better, but at three-score men do not recover very fast

To the same, Aug. 31, 1772. Missed his journey (to Scotland). Health better. Beattie's book liked. Boswell's work on feudal antiquities To the same, Feb. 24, 1773. Thanks for Pindar. The Edinburgh Masquerade. Account of the new edition of the Dictionary. Baretti and Davies had a furious quarrel. Goldsmith's new comedy. Is suffering from a vexatious catarrh To Mr B-d, Mar. 4, 1773. Hurry of his friend's departure for America, whom he asks to take charge of a packet

To Dr White, Mar. 4, 1773. An American edition of "Rasselas" sent to Johnson. Various translations of it. Politics. Goldsmith's new comedy in rehearsal To Langton, Mar. 21, 1773. Asking aid for an old amanuensis

To Rev. Mr Bagshaw, May 8, 1773. Thanks for sending additions for the Dictionary

To Boswell, May 27, 1773. Mrs Thrale has a cold. Beauclerk going to Bath: Langton to Lincolnshire. Going to help Mrs Macaulay's son at Oxford. Asks for some Foulis books. In his book speaks well of Scotch kindness, etc.

To Boswell, July 5, 1773. His eyes inflamed, but improved. Chambers made Judge and going with him to Newcastle. Beattie is caressed everywhere, but Langton left town in "deep dudgeon" To the same, Aug. 3, 1773. Announces his setting forth from London for Scotland

To the same, Aug. 3, 1773. Warm thanks for Boswell's cordial letter "to a man who loves him " Announces his arrival

To the same, Aug. 11, 1773. in Newcastle

To the same. Saturday night. Announces his arrival at Boyd's Inn in Edinburgh

To the same, Nov. 27, 1773. Announces his return to London "last night. Shall go to Oxford on Monday." Asks about a box and the Clan Macdonald

To the same, Jan. 29, 1774. Complains of no answer coming to his Scotch enquiries. Would like to send porter to the Hebrides

To the same, Feb. 7, 1774. Box received. Messages to Mrs Boswell. Ill of a cold. Literary Property question before the Lords

To G. Steevens, Feb. 7, 1774. Asking for "Lesley's History

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To Warren Hastings, March 30, 1774. Introducing his friend Chambers, and asking his patronage To the same, May 10, 1774. Introducing a lady with a lawsuit

To the same, June 12, 1774. "The Journey" put to Press. Asks who ought to have copies

To the same, July 4, 1774. Wished Boswell could have seen his MS. Returns Lord Hailes' sheets. Asks if he intended an edition of Walton's Lives, Dr Horne resigning the task to him. Goldsmith's death and debts noted. "Was ever poet so trusted?" Sends inscription for a print

To Langton, July 5, 1774. Goldsmith's death. Going into Wales with the Thrales. Is better. Greek tetrastich on Goldsmith. Asks for Latin verses of "Busy, curious Fly." Begs him not to be sullen now

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Beattie, Dr James, b. 1735, d. 1803. Professor of Philosophy at Aberdeen. Wrote an "Essay on Truth," which brought him a pension of £200: also a poem, "The Minstrel," still admired.

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Beauclerk, Lady Diana, b. 1734, d. 1808. Daughter of the second Duke of Marlborough. In 1768 she was divorced from her husband, Lord Bolingbroke, to whom she had been married in 1767, and two days later was married to Mr Topham Beauclerk, her companion in the trepas. She was described as "handsome, and agreeable, and ingenious." She was an accomplished artist, and her designs were engraved by Bartolozzi. Walpole was enraptured with some, which he enshrined in his closet. It is said, however, that she was harshly treated by her second husband. Beauclerk, Topham, b. 1739, d. 1780. Son of Lord Sydney Beauclerk. He was named Topham after a wealthy squire and M.P., to whose estate he succeeded. He was a man of elegant tastes and pleasant social gifts. He formed a fine library of 30,000 volumes, rich in every department. Bellamy, George Anne, or Georgiana, b. 1731, d. 1788. A strange, wild actress, with a troubled career. Her mother was a Quakeress. When at school her mother eloped with Lord Tyralwley, Ambassador to Spain. She got acquainted with Garrick, and going on the stage acted with fire and passion. Her beauty was part of the attraction, and she became a leading performer. Her memoirs are a curious and unblushing record of the career of a lady of "easy virtue." She sank into decay and distress.

Berenger, R., d. 1782. An accomplished man, and Gentleman of the Horse to George III. "Everybody's favourite," Hannah More called him. He wrote on " Horsemanship," but, falling into difficulties, had to protect his liberty by the privilege of the palace.

Bickerstaff, Isaac, b. about 1735, d. about 1787-90. An Irish dramatist of talent. Wrote "Love in a Village," 1763; "Lionel and Clarissa," 1768. He had to fly the country, owing to a shameful charge.

Blacklock, Dr, b. 1721, d. 1791. The blind poet and clergyman. His poems were issued in 1745. He made transla. tions of works for the blind.

Blackmore, Sir Richard, b. 1650, d. 1729. A physician and epic poet. He published "King Arthur, an Heroic Poem," in 1695, was admired by Locke, but attacked by John Dennis. He was constantly being attacked and ridiculed by Tom Brown, Garth, and other wits. He wrote "Elvira,' an epic, and other ponderous poems. He was a most voluminous and copious writer on all manner of subjects. Blackstone, Sir W., b. 1723, d. 1780. Was Lecturer at Oxford in 1753. He is famed for his "Commentaries," 1765. Blagden, Sir Charles, b. 1748, d. 1820. A highly scientific physician. He wrote on medicine and antiquities; was Secretary to the Royal Society, 1784. He also served

with the British Army in the Campaign of 1814. Cavendish, the famous chemist, left him £16,000.

Blair, Robert, b. 1699, d. 1746. His great poem "The Grave," published in 1743, was much admired in its day, and now enjoys respect.

Blair, Dr Hugh, b. 1718, d. 1800. A clever man of great social gifts and influence. He was the first Lecturer on the Belles Lettres at Edinburgh University, and his Lectures had great success when published. His sermons were extravagantly admired, translated, etc., some of his volumes passing through nineteen and twenty editions.

Bocage, Mdme, b. 1710, d. 1802. A French poetess, wife of a

General at Dieppe. Her maiden name was Le Page. During her life she was loaded with praises and honours for her compositions, from academies, etc., much as was Madame de Stael. Her travelling letters from England and other places to her sister are more admired than her poems. One of these is an imitation of "Paradise Lost." Boerhave, b. 1668, d. 1738. A famous Dutch physician and writer.

Boileau, N., b. 1636, d. 1711. Wrote Satires, "Le Lutrin," "Art of Poetry."

Bolingbroke, Lord, b. 1678, d. 1751. After being Secretary of

State in 1710, he had to fly to France. He was accused of treason in 1714. He came back to England in 1742. His writings were much read in their day-"The Patriot King" and "Letters on History." He was the friend of Pope. Booth, Barton, b. 1681, d. 1733. This eminent actor was the son of a squire, and received a gentleman's education at Westminster School. He made his first appearance at Dublin, under Ashbury. His fine style of acting finally established him as a favourite in London, and he secured the patronage and friendship of Lord Bolingbroke and others. He became one of the managers of Drury Lane Theatre. He married a dancer. Cibber gives an account of him in his "Apology."

Boothby, Miss Hill, b. 1708, d. 1756. Daughter of Sir Brooke Boothby, and granddaughter of Sir William. She seems to have been a person of elevated mystical and Methodistic piety. Johnson's letters to her are in an extraordinary strain. She is his "sweet angel" and "dearest dear"-he is very pathetic and passionate in his wishes that she should take care of herself. She was dying at the time. Boscawen, Mrs. This agreeable lady, so highly praised by Boswell, was the daughter of Mr Granville of St Clair, in Kent, and married an Admiral in 1742. She died 1805. Boscovitch, Père, Joseph Roger, d. 1787. A Jesuit, celebrated for his mathematical gifts. He was professor at the Roman College, and author of a Latin poem on the subject of "Eclipses." Boswell, Veronica. This daughter of Boswell died only four months after her father, her death-she was in a consumption-being accelerated by her affectionate attendance on him. She was only three-and-twenty.

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Boufflers, Comtesse de, née Saugeon, b. 1724, d. 1800. woman of wit and lively manners; intimate with Rousseau. She was set up as a rival to Mdme. du Deffand.

Boulton, Mathew, b. 1728, d. 1809. This great and persevering mechanic is notable for the faith he put in James Watt's invention of the steam-engine, in which he sank about £50,000. After years of failure it was made to pay. He coined pennies and introduced gas into Birmingham. His character, as described by Mr Smiles, was staunch and interesting.

Bower, Arch., b. 1680, d. 1766. A Scotch Jesuit, who re nounced his religion. He wrote a "History of the Popes."

Bowyer, Wm., b. 1699, d. 1777:

Printer to the two Houses. Wrote a work on "The Origin of Printing." Brocklesby, Richard, b. 1722, d. 1797. He came from Cork, and was at school with Burke. He studied at Leyden. He became a learned and successful physician, and was one of the johnsonian circle. He fought a duel with Sir J. Brooke, Henry, b. 1706, d. 1785. He was a poet and dramatist. His "Earl of Essex" and "Gustavus Vasa" were popular. He also wrote "The Fool of Quality," a novel, reproduced in our time.

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Brown, L., or "Capability" Brown, b. 1715, d. 1773. A famous landscape gardener; had been at Stowe; obtained his nick

name from his using the phrase that every place he advised

upon had " great capability."

Brown, Sir Thomas, b. 1605, d. 1682. A physician. Wrote, in quaint and forcible style, "Religio Medico" (1642), and Treatise on "Urn-Burial." Lamb was a great admirer of his.

Browne, Hawkins Isaac, b. 1706, d. 1760. He published a Latin "De Animi Immortalitate," but is better known for poem, his witty parody, "A Pipe of Tobacco." Browne, John, b. 1715, d. 1766. Wrote poems, satires, and two plays, which had success: "Barbarossa" (1754), and Athelstane" (1756). His fame, however, rests on his "Estimate of the manners and principles of the time, which ran through many editions. He also wrote sermons. Bruce, James, b. 1730, d. 1794. A celebrated traveller of wonderful energy and perseverance. Succeeding in inter esting influential friends in his plans, he set off in 1768 to look for the source of the Nile. He travelled through Abyssinia and found the source of the Blue Nile in 1770. He returned in 1773 and published his "Travels." Bryant, Jacob, b. 1715, d. 1804. A well-read scholar and enquirer. Wrote on ancient Mythology. Brydone, Patrick, b. 1741, d. 1818. Wrote a "Tour through Sicily" (1773).

Buchanan, George, b. 1506, d. 1582. Tutor of James I., and a fierce and scurrilous opponent of Mary Queen of Scots. He wrote on Scotch history, also Latin poems, and a version of the Psalms in the same tongue.

Budgell, Eustace, b. 1685, d. 1737. Best known for his connection with Addison. He was a writer of "papers" in periodicals. He committed suicide.

Burke, Edmund, b. 1729, d. 1797. Perhaps the most solid and generally distinguished of all English orators. He was born in Ireland and never lost his brogue. He was affectionately regarded by his friends. He wrote "A Treatise on the Sublime and Beautiful."

Burke, Richard. The great Burke's son, whom his father regarded with extravagant affection, and a firm faith in his abilities. He was a failure in public life.

Burney, Dr Charles, b. 1726, d. 1814. One of the most interesting and accomplished men of the Johnsonian circle. An admirable musician, good musical historian, pleasant traveller, good composer and executant, and of great social charm. He was the father of clever Miss Burney, and of a learned critic and scholar.

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Blair's Sermons printing. Beauclerk very ill. His children are very pretty. Lady Rothes loses her Scotch. Oppressed by difficulty of breathing and blooded.

To G. Steevens, Feb. 25, 1777. Mrs Goldsmith not drowned as was supposed

To Boswell, Mar. 14, 1777. Remedy for Miss Veronica's Scotch, an English maid. Asks him to get purchasers for Shaw's book on Erse. Augmenting Club from twenty to thirty. Several in it whom he did not like associating with.

To the same, May 3, 1777. False report of Thrale's death. Mrs Boswell's marmalade. 66 'A dear, dear lady." Dr Blair. "The Scotch write English wonderfully." Concord with Boswell's father urged. Health bad and nights unquiet. Engaged to write little "Lives of the Poets." Asks for notes on Thomson

To C. O'Connor, May 19, 1777. Compliment and apology. Praise of Irish language and antiquities. Exhorts him to write a history from the introduction of Christianity to the Invasion

To Right Hon. C. Jenkinson (no date), appeal for Dr Dodd, and urging he is first clergyman to suffer public execution. A very general desire to spare him

To the King, in the name of Dr Dodd, asking mercy. The spectacle of a clergyman dragged through the streets to a death of infamy, etc.

To Dr Dodd. Not to let his part in it be known. To return the copy

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To Langton, June 29, 1777. Asks his interest for an admission to St Cross, Winchester To Dilly, July 7, 1777. Suggesting that Dr Watts be included in the edition of "English Poets." To Dr Vyse, July 9, 1777. Application for one De Groot, a descendant of Grotius, for the Charter House

To the same, July 22, 1777. Giving De Groot's address

To Boswell, July 22, 1777. Shall ask Dr Taylor to invite him. Law-suit between Sir Allan and Macquarry. Rasay he remembered with pleasure. Boswell did right to take his uncle's house. Langton's table coarse. Mrs Williams and her maid. Club session over

To Mrs Boswell, July 22, 1777. Acknowledging jar of marmalade

To Boswell, Aug. 4, 1777. For Mrs Boswell's illness. Spitting blood. To take all care of her. Langton

To the same, Aug. 30, 1777. Arrived at Ashbourne, and gives Dr Taylor's invitation to Boswell

To the same, Sept. 1, 1777. Affectionately anxious for their meeting Life admits not of delays." Harry Jackson aead. Taylor will leave us to ourselves. Mrs Williams ill of "a pituitous defluxion." Later going to Brighton with the Thrale's. Mrs Aston has a palsy

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To the same, Sept. 11, 1777. Must not fancy that an intermission of writing is a decay of kindness. Boswell's kindness one of the felicities of my life." Warns him against distrust. Suspicion often a useless pain

To Boswell, Nov. 26, 1777. Boswell's letter "in strain of cowardly caution" (as to some story repeated by Boswell). He had seen the gentleman. Grew worse at Ashbourne, but stayed on. Club recommenced. Langton has another wench, Thrale a young brewer. Mrs Williams ill. Blair's Sermons universally admired, but Johnson had first to recommend them. Thanks Boswell for his visit. Johnson not much pleased at Ashbourne, yet awkward at departing

To the same, Dec. 27, 1777. Sends Christmas wishes. The schoolmaster's case. Shaw, author of the Gaelic Grammar, desires to be chaplain in Lord Eglintoune's newly-raised regiment. Mrs Thrale has run a great black hairpin into her eye. Miss Reynolds and Mrs Williams ill

To the same, Jan. 24, 1778. Mrs Boswell's health. Hope all danger from consumption over. "Be kind to her." "You always seem to call for tenderness." The negro cause ended to his mind

To Saunders Welch, Feb. 3, 1778 (abroad). Enjoyments of travel with a companion. One of the old man's miseries is that he has no one to talk over his past with. On his return home. Advice to "Miss Nancy" on keeping her journal. His own health not good

To Boswell, April 23, 1778 (written at Boswell's request, and to be shown). On the heated discussion between him and Dr Percy. Apologies and explanations to Percy, and praise of his talents, etc.

To Boswell, July 3, 1778. plaints of his not writing.

About Boswell's com"A man whom every

body likes." Langton's household expenses. Happiness to be had in other places besides London, "without asserting Stoicism.'

To Strahan, July 27, 1778, offering to be reconciled to him

To Langton, Oct. 31, 1778. On his stay at the Camp, and its dangers from damp, etc. Dr Percy, now Dean of Carlisle, with £500 a year. Banks to be admitted to the Club

To Dr Wheeler, Nov. 2, 1778. Introducing Dr Burney, who wished to make researches at Oxford. Hoping all the summer to pay his annual visit

To Dr Edwards, Nov. 2, 1778. Introducing Dr Burney. Asks about Edward's Xenophon To Boswell, Nov. 21, 1778. Not to let small things disturb him. Boswell appears to be gaining ground at Auchenleck. "Be always busy drive away gloom. Spent five days in camp with Langton. Health not restored. The best night he had for twenty years was at Fort Augus

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To Mr Hussey, Dec. 29, 1778. On his going to Aleppo. Sends him a Grammar. "Let no opportunities of vice corrupt you; no bad example seduce you"

To Boswell, March 13, 1779. "Why take such delight to make a bustle?" complaining of Johnson's neglect. Sending copies of his "Lives" to different persons

To the same (ill in London). Promising to go to him To Mr J. Wesley, May 3, 1779. Introducing Boswell To Miss Porter, May 4, 1779. Glad she is better, and is sorry for Mrs Adey. "My friends die very fast, but such is the state of man To Dilly, 1779. Asking about Boswell, from whom

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To Boswell, July 13, 1779. Why did he not write? Is it a fit of humour. Try who can hold out longest without writing; if so, Boswell has the

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To the same, Sept. 9, 1779.

"Are you trying the same trick again?" Thrale has been in great danger, but goes to Brighton to hunt. Lord Hailes' collections on Dryden

To the same, Oct. 27, 1779. Boswell importuning him to write. Glad he made the round of Lichfield. Should keep away the "black dog." Should enquire into the old feudal tenures of Scotland, and the '45. Burton's direction for men disordered like you." If idle be not solitary, if solitary be not idle

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To the same, Nov. 13, 1779. Get rid of all intellectual excesses. "Not exalt your pleasures, nor aggravate your vexations." To make enquiries about Miss Doxy. Percy has two livings; can give one to himself, another to his son. Rallies him about his feelings in a Cathedral. Please your father. At Bolt Court, "much malignity"

To Dr Lawrence, Jan. 20, 1780. On his complaints. Consolation on the loss of his wife. "Of two mortal beings, one must lose the other." "The continuity of being is lacerated"-recourse to be had to piety: the living and dead are in the hands of God.

To Boswell, April 8, 1780. Does not send the Chesterfield letter. Consoles him in his difficulties. Bewails Beauclerk. Dr Percy had no literary loss from the fire. Thrale has been in danger from an apoplectical disorder, and is gone to Bath. Boswell always complaining of melancholy. Should never mention your own mental diseases. Commission about Mrs Stewart To Mrs Thrale, May 1, 1780. Thrale should live by rule and eat abstinently. The musical girl should be encouraged. Mutual dislike common, where mutual approbation expected. Never heed criticism-rarely an author is hurt by criticism. Met Melmoth thirty years ago, and in some dispute reduced him to a whistle. Glad of Mrs Montagu's long stay at Bath, for Mrs Thrale's sake.

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To Dr Farmer, May 25, 1780. Asks for dates, etc., of Poets from the Oxford Registers. To Dr Beattie, August 21, 1780. On Dr Beattie's health. Advises him to go southwards. himself is better. Mrs Montagu has been ill, and Mr Thrale been dangerously disordered, and withdrawn from business. Sir Joshua and sister well, and Davies has had success as an author, "generated by the corruption of a bookseller To Boswell, August 21, 1780. one of his fits of taciturnity. on. The Thrales at Bath. danger during the riots. in his house for a fortnight. to the country. Hopes they may show themselves in some parts of Europe, Asia or Africa. In the meantime let them play no trick, and keep up kindness. Introduces Dr Dunbar of Aberdeen

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To a young Clergyman, August 30, 1780. Advises him on improprieties in reading the Services. On borrowed and original sermons. Invent first then embellish. Composition of sermons not difficult. The manners of the parish an interesting subject. Dr Percy's observation that you might know if a clergyman were resident by the civilised manner of the people. Dr Wheeler's experience in his parish a woman who would not go to sacrament "because she was no scholar." She was to be talked to in own style. Such honest or holy artifices allowable. to the people as much as you can.

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To Boswell, Oct. 17, 1780. Can't travel with him this year. Thrale's loss of health lost him the Election. To go to Bath with him. Mrs Boswell no ill-will to him. Likes Boswell's brother, David. His own health better than it has been for a year

To Warren Hastings, Jan. 9, 1781. Asks his support for Hoole, who is translating, "Ariosto "

To Boswell, March 14, 1781. Hoped he had got rid of all "this hypocrisy of misery." "What have you to do with Liberty and Necessity?" Have finished the "Lives." "Come to me, dear Bozzy, and let us be as happy as we can." To the same, March 18, 1781. The dropsy has about totally run away by God's blessing. The asthma gives little trouble. Mrs Boswell's letter might draw any man, "not wholly motionless," to

Auchenleck. Mr Pitt will have great power, but what he has to give must be preserved for those who gave and who supported his power. Commission about Mrs Stewart and a letter. To procure Baxter's "Anacreon," and other books

To Mrs Porter, April 12, 1781. Life full of troubles. Has lost Thrale. Desire to see Lichfield, but acting as executor. "Let us try to live so that mortality be not an evil"

To Mrs Strahan, April 23, 1781. Consoling her on the death of her son

To Langton, June 16, 1781. Acknowledging invitation. The "Lives" published. Mrs Thrale is disencumbered of her brewhouse, sold for £135,000. "Is the nation ruined ?"

To Reynolds, June 23, 1781. Acknowledging a "splendid benefaction "

To Astle, July 17, 1781. On not returning books. Praise of his notes on King Alfred

To Boswell, Jan. 5, 1782. Pleased that the first letter of the year is to Boswell. Health tottering." Jaunt to Ashbourne not pleasant. Shall there ever be another "frolic" like the one to the Hebrides?

To Dr Lawrence, Jan. 17, 1782. Announcing the manner of Levett's death

To Mrs Strahan, Feb. 4, 1782. His house a melancholy place; of the four inmates, one dead, two have dangerous illness, he himself ill. Glad she is going to Bath. Her fortune is good, so she can do so

To Malone, Feb. 27, 1782. Have been out of order, so cannot be with him and Dr Farmer

To the same, Mar. 2, 1782. "Hope I grow better." This "wild adherence" to Chatterton worse than the obstinate defence of "Ossian," where there was a national pride. The Chatterton writings but saying over again what had been said

To Mrs Porter, Mar. 2, 1782. Left Lichfield ill, had a cold, and let blood three times. His household ill. Levett dead; not one minute passed between health and death; yet sinful to be gloomy. Levett his faithful adherent thirty years

To the same, Mar. 19, 1782. The last but a dull letter. His disorder in its ninth week, blooded for the fourth time. In the summer shall visit Lichfield. Found Levett's brother by advertising. To be sick and see nothing but sickness and death a gloomy state, but hope for better times

To Langton, Mar. 20, 1782. "Do not forget me: friendship should not die away by negligence and silence." Loss of Thrale, a man "whose eye for fifteen years ever turned on him with respect or tenderness." Mrs Thrale at Streatham. Returned to his house where were two sick women. Was thinking of Levett; how he would always retain him about him, when he heard of his death. Ill for eight weeks

To Hector, Mar. 21, 1782. Returned from Birming. ham, and found nothing but ill health. A cold has hung eight weeks upon me-fifty ounces of

blood taken. Than his "Lives," nothing more generally commended. To take care of his health

To the same (no date). They should cling to each other naturally. "You have a sister, but I no natural friend left." "From my twentieth year my health has seldom afforded me a single day of ease, now at least not worse. Hope to be in Staffordshire again this autumn

To Boswell, Mar. 28, 1782. "Let us pray for each other." On Boswell's prospects; dissuades him from coming to London, on borrowed money; yet poverty is so great an evil-you must get a place or pine in penury. Sorry to find Boswell has gone the whole length of his credit. Live on what you have-on less, if you can. "The Beauties of Johnson." "The Deformities."

To Dr Lawrence (in Latin), Maiis Calendis 1782. "Novem frigus, nova tussis," etc., to send Holder, the apothecary, to him

To Rev. Mr

May 15, 1782. Explaining a passage in his writings that appeared to recommend suicide

To Boswell, June 3, 1782. Earnestness and tenderness of Boswell's letter. He himself had a difficulty of breathing, and a catarrhous cough. Going to Oxford for relief. Repeats his advice on not getting into debt. The evils of poverty

To Perkins, July 28, 1782. Rules on his going a journey. Turn all care out of your head. Don't think of frugality. Health the main point. Don't fatigue yourself. Take a day's rest now and then. Get a smart sea sickness if you can, but the first rule is the principal one

To Boswell, Aug. 24, 1782. About their meeting in Ashbourne or in town. This year had been very heavy. The "Lives" reprinting

To the same, Sept. 7, 1782. Lord Auchinleck's death. on Boswell's new station. kind to old servants, and agents, factors, etc. To Mrs Boswell, Sept. 7, 1782. Rarely so pleased as with her invitation to Auchinleck; but his health in the way. She must take care of hers To Metcalfe, Oct. 3, 1782. Declining an offer of his carriage "without Mr Metcalfe's company"

Moved by the news of Consolation. Advice Not to go in debt. Be secure the goodwill of Rasay has been here

To Reynolds, Nov. 14, 1782. Affectionately congratulating him on his recovery

To Boswell, Dec. 7, 1782. Passed the whole year in a succession of disorders. Went to Brighton, and is better. But health after seventy has a different meaning. "He that lives must grow old." Rather angry at Boswell's silence. Warns him against poverty. New edition of "The Lives." Mrs Thrale at Argyle Street. Sir Joshua out of order, but now well

To Rev. M. Wilson, Dec. 31, 1782. Thanking him for a Dedication. His book (an "Archæological Dictionary") "evidently wanted"

To Boswell (extract). Delighted with his activity at Auchinleck. Enjoining saving habits: "no man can help others that wants help himself"

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