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DEAR SIR,-[When I found that the Deanery had given you no uneasiness, I was satisfied, and thought no more of writing. You may indeed be very well without it, and [I] am glad to find that you think so yourself. You have enough, if you are satisfied.]* NOTES:-Letters of Samuel Johnson to Dr. Taylor, 461— Books on Special Subjects, 463-Garibaldi in England"Manacus," 464-Etymology of "Spawn"— Courtship among the Choctaws-Kneller's Portrait of De Foe-A Quaint and Blundering Epitaph, 465-The "Unspeakable Turk"-Books gone astray-Mountainous Scenery-Holly: Holy Tree "Newize "-Catchwords in Printing, 466. 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He Epergne-Tokens of the Sacrament-Heraldic-"Coomb,' 475-Place-Names-" Felix quem faciunt," &c.-" Navvy" rides very vigorously, and runs much into company, -"There's Cauld Kail," &c.-Wesley and Moore-"The and is very angry if it be thought that any thing ails Guy"-Doll-The Wild Huntsman, 476-C. Buller-Order him. Mrs. Thrale thinks him for the present in no of Administering to Communicants-"Le Juif Polonais," danger. I had no mind to go with them, for I have had -Date of the First Easter-Bonython, 477-" Blue- what Brighthelmston can give, and I know not they stone"-Mermaids-Old Houses with Secret Chambers-Bp; much wanted me. Moore "Malte Money"- Parslow Family - The Diceys' Chap-books-"Wolf "-Authors Wanted, 478. NOTES ON BOOKS:-Macray's "Notes from the Muniments of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford"-Wheater's "History of the Parishes of Sherburn and Cawood"-Stevens's "Jottings in the Stonehenge Excursion" - Bevan and Stainer's "Handbook to St. Paul's," &c. &c. Nates. LETTERS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON TO (Continued from p. 423.) custom of late. From this account you may, I think, derive hope and comfort. I am older than you, my disorders had been of very long continuance, and if it should please God that this recovery is lasting, you have reason to expect an abatement of all the pains that encumber your life. Mr. Thrale has felt a very heavy blow. He was for some time without reason, and, I think, without utterance. Heberden was in great doubt whether his powers of mind would ever return. He has however perfectly recovered all his faculties and all his vigour. He has a fontanel in his back. I make little doubt but that, not Fontanel, a seton. See Todd and Richardson (and Littré, s.v. fontanelle). Add Jeremy Taylor, Holy Living, ch. iii. sect. 2 (iii. 62, ed. Eden); the same, Hymn upon the Day of the Holy Innocents (vii. 653): "Passing from their fontinels of clay To heaven a milky and a bloody way." Jean Paul Fr. Richter, Werke (Berlin, 1826), vi. 39: "nicht zu gedenken des Fontanell's am rechten Arme." I have had a little catch of the gout; but as I have had no great opinion of the benefits which it is supposed to convey, I made haste to be easy, and drove it away after two days. Publick affairs continue to go on without much mending, and there are those still who either fright themselves or would fright others with an invasion; but my opinion is that the French neither have nor had in any part of the Summer a number of ships on the opposite coast equal to the transportation of twenty or of ten thousand Men. Such a fleet cannot be hid in a creek, it must be safely [easily ?] visible and yet 1 believe no man has seen the man that has seen it. The ships of war were within sight of Plymouth, and only within sight. I wish, I knew how your health stands. My friends congratulate me upon my looks, and indeed I am very free from some of the most troublesome of my old complaints, but I have gained this relief by very steady use of mercury and purgatives, with some opium, and some abstinence. I have eaten more fruit this summer than perhaps in any since I was twenty years old, but though it certainly did me no harm, I know not that I had any medicinal good from it. Write to me soon. We are both old. How few of DEAR SIR,-You are doubtless impatient to know the present state of the court. Dr. Hunter, whom I take to have very good intelligence, has just left me, and from him I learn only that all is yet uncertainty and confusion. Fox, you know, has resigned, Burke's dismission is expected. I was particularly told that the Cavendishes were expected to be left out in the new settlement. The Doctor spoke, however, with very little confidence, nor do I believe that those who are now busy in the * Erased. contest can judge of the event. I did not think Rockingham of such importance as that his death should have had such extensive consequences. Have you settle[d] about the silver coffeepot? is it mine or Mrs. Fletcher's? I am yet afraid of liking it too well. If there is any thing that I can do for Miss Colliers, let me know. But now you have so kindly engaged in it, I am willing to set myself at ease. When you went away, I did not expect so long absence. If you are engaged in any political business, I suppose your operations are at present suspended, as is, I believe, the whole political movement. These are not pleasant times. I came back from Oxford in ten days and was almost restored to health. My breath is not quite free, but my cough is gone. When the will is despatched, the marriage settlement is to be examined, which if Mr Flint refuses to shew, he gives such ground of suspicion as will justify a legal compulsion to shew it. It may perhaps be better that I should appear busy in this matter than you, and if you think it best, I will write to Lichfield that a copy of the will may be sent to you, for I would have you read it. I should be told the year of Mr Dunn's death. I think the generosity of Mr Flint somewhat suspicious. I have however not yet condemned him nor would irritate him too much, for perhaps the girls must at last be content with what he shall give them. My letter, which you shewed to Miss Collier, she did not understand, but supposed that I charged her with asking money of Mr Fint, in order to sue him. I only meant that her proposal was to him eventually the same, and was therefore, as I called it, wild. I hope your health improves. I am told that I look better and better. I am going, idly enough, to Brighthelmston. I try, as I would have you do, to keep my body open, and my mind quiet. I am, Sir, your most &c. London, July 8, 1782. SAM. JOHNSON. To the Revd Dr Taylor in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. [Redirected, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire.] DEAR SIR,-I do not hear that the Cavendishes are I hope my attention grows more fixed. When I was likely to find their [way] soon into publick offices, but I last at your house I began, if I remember right, another do not doubt of the Duke's ability to procure the ex-perusal of the Bible, which notwithstanding all my disorders I have read through except the Psalms. I change for which he has stipulated, and which is now not so much a favour as a contract. concluded the twenty second of last month. I hope, for as many years as God shall grant me, to read it through at least once every year. Your reason for the exchange I do not fully comprehend, but I conceive myself a Gainer by it, because, I think, you must be more in London. Mr. Burke's family is computed to have lost by this revolution twelve thousand a year. What a rise, and what a fall! Shelburne speaks of him in private with great malignity. I have heard no more from the Miss Colliers. Now you have engaged on their side, I am less solicitous about them. Be on their side as much as you can, for you know they are friendless. Sir Robert Chambers slipped this session through the fingers of revocation, but I am in doubt of his continuance. Shelburne seems to be his enemy. Mrs. Thrale says they will do him no harm. She perhaps thinks there is no harm without hanging. The mere act of recall strips him of eight thousand a year. I am not very well, but much better than when we Your most affectionate DEAR SIR,-To help the ignorant commonly requires much patience, for the ignorant are always trying to be cunning. To do business by letters is very difficult, for without the opportunity of verbal questions much information is seldom obtained. I received, I suppose, by the coach a copy of Dunn's will, and an abstract of Mr Flint's (1) marriage settlement. By whom they were sent I know not. The copy of the Will is so worn, that it is troublesome to open it, and has no attestation to evince its authenticity. The extract is, I think, in Mr Flint's own hand, and has not therefore any legal credibility. What seems to me proper to be done, but you know much better than I, is to take an exemplification of the will from the registry. We are then so far sure. This will I entreat you to send. If it be clear and decisive against the girls, there can be no farther use of it. If you think it doubtful, send it to Mr Madox, and I will pay the fee. Boswel's Father is dead, and Boswel wrote me word that he would come to London for my advice. [The*] advice which I sent him is to stay at home and busy) himself with his own affairs. He has a good es[tate] considerably burthened by settlements, and he is himself in debt. But if his wife lives, I think he will be prudent. I am Sir Yours affectionately] London Oct. 4, 1782. SAM. JOHNSON. To the Revd Dr Taylor in Ashbourn, Derbyshire. DEAR SIR,--Your last little note was very unsatisfactory. That a silly timorous unskilful Girl has behaved improperly, is a poor reason for refusing to tell me what expectations have been raised by the will, and what questions I must ask the Lawyers, questions which if you do not like to answer them, I must ask elsewhere, and I am unwilling to mingle this affair with any name that you may hear with disgust. This, my dear Sir, is the last day of a very sickly and melancholy year. Join your prayers with mine, that the next may be more happy to us both. I hope the happiness which I have not found in this world, will by infinite mercy be granted in another. I am Dear Sir Dec. 31, 1782. DEAR SIR,-I have for some time been labouring under very great disorder of Body, and distress of Mind. I wish that in our latter days we may give some comfort to each other. Let us at least not be angry, nor suppose each other angry. We have no time to lose in petulance. I beg you not to take amiss that I trouble you once more about the Colliers. I have but you and Mr Langley to consult, and him I never have consulted, because you dislike him. I would shew the Lawyers the papers, but that I know not what questions to ask nor can state the case, till I am informed with regard to some particulars. * Torr. |