BIB_ID
298277
Accession number
MA 204.1
Creator
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
Display Date
1773 Feb. 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897 or 1900.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Accompanied by notes by G. B. Hill about the letter.
Docketed.
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.
With postmark and seal.
Docketed.
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.
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1897 or 1900.
Summary
Asking after his health; describing a cough "which has hung on [him] about ten weeks, and for six or seven has been very violent"; commenting on a man who asked him to "put [his] name to a printed recommendation" of a spelling book; noting that he is "afraid that [he suffers himself] to be corroded with vain and idle discontent."
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