448 Letters of Dr. Johnson.
the barley J next week, I can deliver [it] to Boswel. I wish he would [put] a peck more in a separate bag, for I would not break the main bulk, and yet I cannot well help it, unless I have a little more.
Mr. Boswel is in the room 2 , and sends his respects. Let me know whether you design to come hither before I am to go, and if you come we will contrive to pass a few hours
together.
I am,
Sir,
Your most humble Servant,
SAM: JOHNSON.
No. 8, Bolt Court, Fleet street (not Johnson's Court 3 ).
Apr. 4, 1776. To the Reverend Dr. Taylor, in Ashbourn, Derbyshire.
��TO MISS REYNOLDS 4 .
DEAREST MADAM,
When you called on Mrs. Thrale, I find by enquiry that she was really abroad, the same thing happenned \_sic\ to Mrs. Montague, of which I beg you to inform her, for she went likewise by my opinion. The Denial, if it had been feigned, would not have pleased me. Your visits however are kindly paid and very kindly taken 5 .
1 Mr. Langdon is mentioned the nolds of Oct. 27, 1763 (Ib. i. no), as following year as buying ' fifteen tun printed by Croker, ends : ' Most of cheese at Nottingham fair.' Letters, sincerely yours.' I suspected the ii. 45. Johnson wrote from Ash- word sincerely for I had never known bourne in July, 1775 : 'We talk here it thus used by Johnson. By Lady of Polish oats and Siberian barley... Colomb's kindness I have seen the I intend to procure specimens of original. The word is not clear, but both, which we will try in some spots I believe it is zealously.
of our own ground.' Ib. i. 352. s Mrs. Thrale had lost her only
2 Life, iii. 17. son eleven days earlier. Johnson
3 He had lately removed from wrote to Miss Reynolds on the Johnson's Court. Ib. ii. 427. nth: 'A visit from you will be
4 From the original in the posses- well taken I am sure that it
sion of Lady Colomb. The first will be thought seasonable and kind,
paragraph has been long in print, and I wish you not to omit it.'
Letters, i. 391. Ib. i. 389.
Johnson's letter to Miss Rey-
Pray
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