TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Letters published by me for the first time, whether in my edition of Boswell's
Life of Johnson or in this Collection, are marked * in the following Table.

Those now first collected from Magazines and from works printed for private circula-
tion are marked +.

Those quoted in part or merely mentioned in Auctioneers' Catalogues and elsewhere
are marked ‡.

Italics are used to show that the Letter is to be found not here but in the Life

of Johnson.

VOLUME I.

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DATE LETTER

1731...

....

1... Oct. 30.. To Gregory Hickman.—Apologises for not sending

some verses. Is yet unemployed

1732... 2... July 27.... To --Hopes for a post in Ashbourne School

1734... 3... Nov. 25.... To Edward Cave.

1737.. 4... July 12

To Lewis Paul.-Paul's spinning machine. Dr. James,

Warren, and Cave

6

14... March 31... To Lewis Paul.-Dr. James's proposal

1742... 15... Undated... To Edward Cave.

8

16...

... To Dr. Taylor.-Taylor's treaty about a change of

livings. Lord Chesterfield. Charles of Sweden.

Duke of Devonshire. Cardinal Fleury. Peace be-

tween Prussia and Hungary. Lord Carteret. Thur-

loe's State Papers

15

16

To Miss Porter.-Mortgage on his house at Lichfield.

Fright caused by a black wafer. His wife's ill-health.

To [? John Levett].-Rescued from the necessity of

borrowing

To the Printer of the General Advertiser.

To Dr. Birch.

To James Elphinston.

To Samuel Richardson.-New edition of Clarissa.
An index rerum should be added.

To John Newbery.-Requests the loan of £2
... To John Newbery.-Requests the loan of a guinea
... To John Newbery.—Requests the loan of a guinea

17

18

20

21

22

23

23

25

26

27

To William Strahan.-The progress of the Dictionary

To William Strahan.-The payment to his amanuenses 27

To William Strahan.-The haste of his amanuenses.

Poor Stuart

41... March 17... To Dr. Taylor.

To Dr. Birch.-Requests the loan of Blount's Censura
To Joseph Warton.

To William Strahan.-Dr. Bathurst's scheme
To Samuel Richardson.-Sends a few notes on the
Dictionary. Richardson's new book

To Samuel Richardson.-Returns thanks for the first

volumes of Sir Charles Grandison. Asks for an index

92... March 12... To Lewis Paul.-Will interpose with Paul's creditors 59

*93 March To Dr. Hawkesworth.-Greville's Maxims

...

...

94... March 16... To Samuel Richardson.-Arrested for debt

*95... March 20... To Dr. Birch.-Gives him the Life of Sir Thomas

282

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61

62

62

64

64

65

Paul's

66

66

67

67

69

70

To Lewis Paul.-Paul's creditors at St. John's Gate
To Lewis Paul.-His boy is run away.

creditors

... To Lewis Paul.-Too ill to attend to Paul's affairs.
To Lewis Paul.-Paul's creditors
... To Edmund Hector.-Interruption in their corre-
spondence. Friendship. Subscription for his
Shakespeare. His melancholy indisposition

...

119... Jan. 16

To Miss Porter.-His mother's illness

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