436 Letters of Dr. Johnson.
I beg to put my name amongst your other friends. If you favour me with a few receipts, I will push them.
My Lord Corke did me the honour to leave his name. I went to Mr. Andrew Millar 1 to enquire where he resides, but could not learn. I am impatient to know.
I am, Sir,
Your most humble servant,
Thursday night. SAM: JOHNSON.
Endorsed from Sam : Johnson.
c To [SAMUEL RICHARDSON 2 ],
oIR,
I am desired by Miss Williams who has waited several times upon you without finding you at home, and has been hindered by an ilness of some weeks from repeating her visits, to return you her humble thanks for your present. She is likewise desirous to lay before you the inclosed plan which she has meditated a long time, and thinks herself able to execute by the help of an Amanuensis, having long since collected a great number of volumes on these subjects, which indeed she appears to me to understand better than any person that I have ever known. She will however want a few of the late books. She begs that if you think her dictionary likely to shift for itself in this age of dictionaries you will be pleased to encourage her by taking some share of the copy, and using your interest with others to take the rest, or put her in any way of making the undertaking profitable to her.
I am extremely obliged by the seventh volume. You have a trick of laying yourself open to objections, in the first part of your work, and crushing them in subsequent parts. A great deal that I had to say before I read the conversation in the latter part, is now taken from me. / wish however that Sir Charles had not compromised in 'matters of religion 3 .
1 Millar had published Lord 5 Pall Mall Place, London. It was Corke's Remarks on the Life of lately sold by auction by Messrs. Swift. Sotheby & Co. for 6 los.
- From the original in the posses- 3 Richardson in 'a concluding note
sion of Messrs. J. Pearson & Co., by the editor* (ed. 1754, vi. 300)
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