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229 lore. But the next year, by a curious complication of disasters, including small-pox and Civil War, he was driven from the University, and for many months "he led a sad life in the country."

Nevertheless he came back whenever he could to Oxford, where, according to his own statement, he "enjoyed the greatest felicity of his life"; where, in a way, he collaborated with Wood, and where, in accidental transit to London, he died. He was buried, according to the "Dictionary of National Biography," in the Church of St. Mary Magdalen, at the west end of Broad Street, although, curiously enough, none of the local guidebooks of Oxford record the fact.

There is a portrait of Dr. Johnson at Trinity (supposed to be by Romney), in the Common Room; and in the Library is the copy of the Baskerville "Virgil" which he presented to the College. In this Library he worked diligently gathering material for his Dictionary in the summer of 1769. A fragment of his Diary is in the Bodleian.

Notwithstanding his devotion to his own Nourishing Mother, Pembroke, Johnson confessed once that if he ever went to Oxford to live, he would take up his abode at Trinity, partly moved thereto by his friendship for Bennet Langton, Topham