Autograph letter signed (incomplete at the beginning) : London, to Mrs. Lucy Porter, 1759 Jan. 25.

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Autograph letter signed (incomplete at the beginning) : London, to Mrs. Lucy Porter, 1759 Jan. 25.

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Concerning the settlement of affairs following the death of the writer's mother.

1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Porter, Lucy, 1715-1786

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Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was one of the leading literary figures of eighteenth-century England. He is best remembered for compiling the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, published in 1755. Prominent among his diverse other works, he also wrote the satirical History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759), edited The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (1765), and produced the important Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (first collect...