Papers, 1836-1875.

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Papers, 1836-1875.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85213494

This collection does not include any material contemporary to Samuel Johnson, and consists primarily of correspondence and notes relating to Pocock's Johnson collection.

1 box (.5 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8332556

Houghton Library

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Pocock, Lewis, 1808-1882

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Lewis Pocock was a patron of the arts in London. He assembled a substantial collection of books, manuscripts and art relating to Samuel Johnson, which was dispersed at a Sotheby's sale in 1875. From the description of Papers, 1836-1875. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 85213494 Epithet: Secretary, London Art Union British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000408.0x0002af Lewis Pocock (1808-1...

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...