Autograph letter signed : London, to Dr. William Adams, 1784 Jul. 11.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to Dr. William Adams, 1784 Jul. 11.

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Concerning manuscript collations of Xenophon and Oppian.

1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Adams, William, 1706-1789

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Archdeacon of Landaff, and master of Pembroke College in the university of Oxford. Friend and instructor of Samuel Johnson. From the guide to the William Adams letter and autograph, 1764, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

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...