BIB_ID
120664
Accession number
MA Unassigned
Creator
Lort, Michael, 1725-1790.
Display Date
1771 Nov. 26.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address)
Notes
Addressed: "To / The Revd Mr. Grainger / at Shiplake near / Henley." Given the address and contents of the letter, the addressee is probably James Granger.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791); PML 9812-9815; volume IV, page 319.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791); PML 9812-9815; volume IV, page 319.
Summary
About the basis for his assertion that Wolsey was painted in profile because he had only one eye; discussing John Aubrey, Anthony à Wood, and other antiquarian matters.
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