BIB_ID
104431
Accession number
MA 205.2
Creator
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
Display Date
London, 1777 July 2.
Credit line
Purchased, 1896.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.6 x 18.3 cm
Notes
Written from "Bolt Court, Fleet Street."
Formerly housed with the manuscript of Samuel Johnson's Life of Pope; for more information see main record for MA 205.
Formerly housed with the manuscript of Samuel Johnson's Life of Pope; for more information see main record for MA 205.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer Sotheran, 1896.
Summary
Writing to inquire if there is any material to be found "among Mr. [Thomas] Bakers manuscripts, or any where else at Cambridge", to assist him in writing the introductory biographical and critical sketches to be included in each entry in his The works of the English poets.
Catalog link
Department