BIB_ID
125774
Accession number
MA 204.23
Creator
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Probably acquired by Pierpont Morgan or J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1922 or earlier.
Description
1 item (1 p.) 2.3 x 13.6 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters related to Samuel Johnson. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 204 for more information.
Pasted to a sheet of paper with a fragment of a letter in Johnson's hand, a printed advertisement for his Dictionary, and notes by William Upcott.
Removed from Herbert Paul's Queen Anne (Paris: Goupil, 1906), v. 2, p. 113; probably added to this volume of Johnson letters ca. 1922.
Pasted to a sheet of paper with a fragment of a letter in Johnson's hand, a printed advertisement for his Dictionary, and notes by William Upcott.
Removed from Herbert Paul's Queen Anne (Paris: Goupil, 1906), v. 2, p. 113; probably added to this volume of Johnson letters ca. 1922.
Summary
The note reads: "My eye tells me that he will work no longer."
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