Miscellanea nova
Subtitle: containing amidst a variety of other matters curious and interesting, Sheridan versus Johnson, on the information of Boswell the Smiler, with occasional remarks, anecdotes, biographical and theatrical; Origin of the hermit and the angel; The mysterious story of the mysterious mother, scrutinized and developed; A critique on Bürger's Leonora, decidedly ascertaining her English extraction; Important strictures on education; and a collection of letters from the late Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan, and other eminent writers, to the author Samuel Whyte : with additions and elucidations from the author's papers
By: interspersed by his son, the editor, Edward-Athenry Whyte
Contributors: Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library); Whyte, E.-A. (Edward-Athenry); Sheridan, Thomas, 1719-1788; Procter, G. A., printer; Goldberg, Gerald M., former owner
Publisher: Printed by G. A. Procter, for the editor, Edward-Athenry Whyte, no. 79, Grafton-Street ...
Published: 1810
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
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Printed on wove paper.

The Remarks on Boswell's Johnson deal mainly with Johnson's relations with Thomas Sheridan; Original letters (p. [89]-127) are selected from correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan and Samuel Whyte.

Appended: Elegies and other poems chiefly from the Shamrock: p. [249]-280; The merchants tale. The recreant knights discomfited. Epigram. Notes and illustrations. p. [41]-56, following p. 280.