BIB_ID
298316
Accession number
MA 204.14
Creator
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
Display Date
1782 Aug. 12.
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.
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.
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
Sympathizing with Taylor following his recent robbery; warning him "against useless and unnecessary vexation": "to be robbed is very offensive, but you have been robbed of nothing that you can feel the want of. Let not the loss, nor the circumstances of the loss take any hold upon your mind"; telling him to be "particularly careful now to drink enough, and to avoid costiveness."
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