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 450 Letters of Dr. Johnson.

to make it such as we may both like. I will not forget it, nor neglect it, for I love your tenderness. I am,

Dear Madam,

Your most humble Servant,

SAM: JOHNSON. June 15, 1776.

��TO MlSS REYNOLDS 1.

DEAR MADAM,

I want no company but yours nor wish for any other. I will wait on you on Saturday, and am so well that I am very able to find my way without a carriage. I am,

Dear Madam,

Your most humble Servant,

SAM: JOHNSON. Oct. 21 [1779].

��TO [LUCY PORTER 2 ].

DEAR MADAM,

I have inclosed Mr. Boswels answer.

I still continue better than when you saw me, but am not just at this time very well, but hope to mend again. Publick affairs remain as they were. Do not let the papers fright you 3.

I have ordered you some oisters this week, which I hope you

1 From a copy of the original in her as well as I could.' Ib. ii. 116.

the possession of Lady Colomb. Tuesday was the 26th ; so that it

On Oct. 25 Johnson wrote to Mrs. was Miss Reynolds's little head which Thrale : ' On Saturday I walked was beginning to settle, to Dover-street [Miss Reynolds's 2 From the original in the posses- lodging] and back I am to dine sion of Messrs. J. Pearson & Co.,

with Renny [Miss Reynolds] to- 5 Pall Mall Place, London. Part of

morrow.' Letters, ii. 113. On Oct. this letter is given in the Letters, ii.

28 he wrote to Mrs. Thrale: 'I 129. It is not addressed, but it was

dined on Tuesday with, and written to Johnson's step-daughter,

hope her little head begins to settle. Lucy Porter. See ib. n. i and Life,

She has, however, some scruples iii. 41 7-

about the company of a lady whom 3 There was fear of an invasion,

she has lately known. I pacified Ante, i. 203 ; Letters, ii. 109, 120.

will

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