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to tell you, but I hope you will favour me with a call early on

Wednesday.

I am, dearest,

Your most humble servant,

SAM: JOHNSON.

Monday, I7th.

To Miss Thrale, No. 37, Argyle Street. Monday, nine in the morning.

��TO DR. TAYLOR 1.

DEAR SIR,

I am sorry to hear that you are not well. I have had a very troublesome night myself. I fancy the Weather may hurt us, if that is the case, we may hope for better health as the year advances.

I had a letter last night from Mr. Langley 2, which I will shew you to morrow ; which will I believe incline you to doubt Mr. Flint's veracity 3, yet I believe it will be best for the Girls to take the money offered them, but you shall consider it to

morrow.

I am, Sir,

Your, &c.

SAM: JOHNSON.

I shall come to morrow early in the evening.

March 2, 1782.

To the Reverend Doctor Taylor.

Endorsed in another hand, 2 March, 1782.

silence has something either of lazi- Russell Street, London,

ness or unkindness.' Letters > ii. 316; 2 The head master of Ashbournfc

on March 16, 1784, ' Miss Thrale Grammar School. Ib. iii. 138.

rather neglects me.' Ib. ii. 384 ; on 3 Mr. Flint had married a widow,

June 26, 1784: 'My dear girls seem Mrs. Collier, who had brought him,

all to forget me.' Ib. ii. 404. They Johnson thought, about ^200 a year,

had troubles of their own with She was dead, and he apparently

their mother's second marriage. was trying to keep from her daughters

Queeney visited him in his last ill- by her first husband a part of her

ness. Life, iv. 339, n. 3. property which they claimed. See

1 From the original in the posses- Letters, ii. 263, 269, 270, 278, 280,

sion of Mr. S. J. Davey, 47 Great 282.

To

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