M 145 -- *Life*. MS. Papers Apart

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  <tbody>
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      <td>M 145</td>
      <td>M 144</td>
      <td>Hill-Powell</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>p.no.</td>
      <td>p.no.</td>
      <td>vol. and p.no.</td>
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      <td>147-191</td>
      <td>154 "TW" (a quarto notebook, "Letters written by Dr. Johnson at London to Mr. T. Warton at Oxford")</td>
      <td>various, for a list see Note filed with "TW" (Papers Apart, p.147ff.)</td>
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    <tr>
      <td>(147-152)</td>
      <td>154 (To T.Warton 16 Jy 1754)</td>
      <td>i.270-71</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>192-195</td>
      <td>155 "A" (SJ at Oxford, 1754)</td>
      <td>i.271-74</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(187-191)</td>
      <td>155 "TW" (To Chambers, 21 Nov 1754)</td>
      <td>i.274</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(152-156)</td>
      <td>155 "TW" (To T.Warton, 28 Nov and 21 Dec 1754)</td>
      <td>i.275-277</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(160-65)</td>
      <td>155 "TW" (To Warton, 1, 4, and 13 Feb 1755). Inserted in the printed work at this point.</td>
      <td>i.278-79</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(166-167)</td>
      <td>156 "TW" (To Warton, Feb 1755)</td>
      <td>i.279-80</td>
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    <tr>
      <td>196-200</td>
      <td>156 "O" (Oxford, Master's degree)</td>
      <td>i.280-82</td>
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    <tr>
      <td>(167-172)</td>
      <td>156 "TW" (To Warton, 20 Mar 1755 and 25 Mar 1755)</td>
      <td>i.282-284</td>
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      <td>201-205</td>
      <td>156 "C B" (Charles Burney)</td>
      <td>i.285-88</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(203-205)</td>
      <td>sub-paper apart: "A M" (Andrew Millar)</td>
      <td>(i.287-88)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(172-177)</td>
      <td>" " " "TW" (To Warton, 13 May, 10, 24 June, 7 Aug 1755)</td>
      <td>(i.289-291)</td>
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      <td>206</td>
      <td>opp.p.159</td>
      <td>i.294</td>
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      <td>207</td>
      <td>175 (Epitaph, Adm. Byng) In handwriting of Squire John Dilly</td>
      <td>i.315</td>
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      <td>208-209</td>
      <td>opp.p.176</td>
      <td>i.316n.2</td>
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      <td>210-211</td>
      <td>opp.p.177 "TC" (Tho. Campbell)</td>
      <td>i.318</td>
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      <td>212-215</td>
      <td>179 (C 3054, JC.Walker to JB, 13 Nov.1785, p.214-15)</td>
      <td>i.321-22</td>
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      <td>(177-179)</td>
      <td>179 "TW" (To Warton 21 June 1757)</td>
      <td>i.323</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td></td>
      <td>opp.p.179 "Take in what is on the back of page 183" (Burney letter and memoranda; these are the directions etc. for making them in; the papers are not in the collection</td>
      <td>i.327-330</td>
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      <td>(179-183)</td>
      <td>184 "TW" (To Warton 14 Apr and 1 June 1758)</td>
      <td>i.335-37</td>
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      <td>216-217</td>
      <td>190 "Q"</td>
      <td>i.343-44</td>
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      <td>218-221</td>
      <td>190 (To Jos. Simpson, in Mary Adey's hand)</td>
      <td>i.346-47</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>222</td>
      <td>190 (leaf from Gent. Mag.)</td>
      <td>i.347-48</td>
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      <td>223-228</td>
      <td>193 (Blackfriars Bridge)</td>
      <td>i.351 and n.1, 352</td>
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      <td>229-230</td>
      <td>For "p 191 print". Actually 1st ed. I.192. (Dedication for Baretti; on p.230 is a note from the compositor)</td>
      <td>i.353</td>
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      <td>231</td>
      <td>"T for p 191 of print" (Tytler's Mary, Queen of Scots). Actually 1st ed. I.192.</td>
      <td>i.354</td>
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      <td>232-233</td>
      <td>"B" (Baretti). ?for the printed work; no place indicated in the MS. On p.233 is C 1169, a note from Earle, the surgeon, to JB</td>
      <td>i.361</td>
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      <td>234</td>
      <td>199 "K" (Kennedy)</td>
      <td>i.366</td>
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      <td>235-239</td>
      <td>199 (To Staunton)</td>
      <td>i.367-68</td>
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      <td>240-242</td>
      <td>199 (To a Lady conc. her son)</td>
      <td>i.368-69</td>
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      <td>243-246</td>
      <td>202 (Year 1762, with Sir Joshua in Devonshire)</td>
      <td>i.377-79</td>
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      <td>247-248</td>
      <td>opp.p.206 "W" (Wedderburne)</td>
      <td>i.386-87</td>
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      <td>249-252</td>
      <td>"C.G.( for p.219 of the printed Work X)", i.e. 1st ed. I.219-20 and n.3 (Cock Lane Ghost)</td>
      <td>i.406-407 and n.3</td>
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      <td>253-254</td>
      <td>opp. p. 230 ("Telemachus"); on p.254 the address, "Mr Plymsel"</td>
      <td>i.411</td>
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      <td>255-263</td>
      <td>230 "G" (Goldsmith)</td>
      <td>i.411-16 and notes</td>
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    <tr>
      <td>(259)</td>
      <td>sub-paper apart: "E" (envy)</td>
      <td>(i.413-14)</td>
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M 145 -- <u>Life</u>. MS. Papers Apart

<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>M 145<br>p.no.</th>
      <th>M 144<br>p.no.</th>
      <th>Hill-Powell<br>vol. and p.no.</th>
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  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>264-265</td>
      <td>"P. (For p 224 of the printed Work)", i.e.<br>1st ed. I.225n.9. On p.265, C 2221, the ad-<br>dress: "James Boswell Esqr. With Mr Rd Penn's<br>Compliments"</td>
      <td>i.416n.2</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>266</td>
      <td>247 "E" (Essex)</td>
      <td>i.431</td>
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      <td>267</td>
      <td>247 "C B"</td>
      <td>i.432</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>268-269</td>
      <td>opp.p.274 "D" (Derrick)</td>
      <td>i.456-57</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>270-271</td>
      <td>opp.p.276 "G" (conclusion of note on Methodism)</td>
      <td>i.459 n.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>272-273</td>
      <td>285 "A" (Ascham). On p.273, fragment of ad-<br>dress: "James Bosw<ell> No.38 Queen<br>A<nn>ne<sub>1</sub>.</sub></td>
      <td>i.464</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>274-279</td>
      <td>291 "A" (To JB 8 Dec 1763). In Mrs. Boswell's<br>handwriting.</td>
      <td>i.473-75</td>
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      <td>280-284<br>(281-284)</td>
      <td>293<br>Sub-paper apart:"L" (SJ at Langton; Literary<br>Club)</td>
      <td>i.476-81</td>
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      <td>285</td>
      <td>293 "R" (SJ's review of <u>Sugar Cane</u>)</td>
      <td>i.482</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>286-290</td>
      <td>opp. p.294 "O" (?oddities)</td>
      <td>i.484-86</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>291</td>
      <td>302 (Burney)</td>
      <td>i.499-500</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="3">END OF VOLUME 1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>292-294</td>
      <td>306 "P" (To JB 14 Jan 1766)</td>
      <td>ii.3-4</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>295-298</td>
      <td>318 (To JB 21 Aug 1766). In Mrs. Boswell's</td>
      <td>ii.20-22</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>299-300</td>
      <td>318 (JB's) <u>handwriting</u><br>(Dedication of Law Thesis)</td>
      <td>ii.20, n.4</td>
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      <td>301-302</td>
      <td>318 (JB to SJ 6 Nov 1766 -- L 658) This copy ex-<br>tends only to "Spes tu nunc una"; JB prob-<br>ably had the printer use the original let-<br>ter from this point.)</td>
      <td>ii.22-23</td>
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      <td>303-306</td>
      <td>319 (To W. Drummond, 13 Aug 1766). In Mrs. Bos-<br>well's handwriting. The other two Drummond,<br>designated on MS.p.320 by "D2" and "D3", are<br>not in the collection, and not in Fettercairn.</td>
      <td>ii.27-29</td>
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      <td>307-325</td>
      <td>320 (Conversation with George III)</td>
      <td>ii.33-42</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>326</td>
      <td>320 "Note"</td>
      <td>ii.43 n.1</td>
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      <td>327</td>
      <td>320 "CC" (Catharine Chambers)</td>
      <td>ii.43-44</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>328</td>
      <td>321 (Lexiphanes)</td>
      <td>ii.44</td>
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      <td>329</td>
      <td>333 "K<sup>f</sup>" (Kenrick)</td>
      <td>ii.61</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>330-336<br>(184-185)</td>
      <td>333 "C and A" (Crown and Anchor)</td>
      <td>ii.63-66</td>
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      <td>334</td>
      <td>334 "TW" (To Warton, 31 May 1769)</td>
      <td>ii.67-68</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>337-339</td>
      <td>335 (To JB, 9 Sept 1769)</td>
      <td>ii.70</td>
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      <td>340-359</td>
      <td>335</td>
      <td>ii.71-82</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>360-385</td>
      <td>352 "RC" ("R.C" is written up from JB's Lon-<br>don journal, J 20.1; on p.380 is L 659,<br>an excerpt from JB's note to SJ).</td>
      <td>ii.101-109</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>386<br>(183-184)</td>
      <td>355 (To Dr. Farmer)</td>
      <td>ii.114</td>
    </tr>
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      <td></td>
      <td>356 "TW" (To T. Warton, 23 June 1770)</td>
      <td>ii.114-15</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td></td>
      <td>356 Note: the Maxwell <u>Collectanea</u> is not in<br>the collection.</td>
      <td></td>
    </tr>
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      <td>387</td>
      <td>opp.p.359 (introduction to Strahan passage)<br>the passage on Strahan -- JB had erroneously<br>ly written this passage on p.365-366 of the<br>MS. under the year 1772, where it is still<br>found. The text of the introduction, marked<br>correctly "to be taken in on the back of p.358",<br>is continued at the top of MS. p.365.</td>
      <td>ii.136-37</td>
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<table><thead><tr><th>M 145<br>p. no.</th><th>M 144<br>p. no.</th><th>Hill-Powell<br>vol. and p. no.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td>560 "take in five leaves" (continued)<br>Sub-papers apart:<br>"S" (Schools). To come in on J 47 p.1<br>iii.12<br>"M" (Maclaurin). To come in on J 47 p.4<br>iii.15 and n.2<br>"Note for printed page 51 word mankind". i.e.<br>1st ed. II.51. (Note: the compositor has<br>indicated this note to be inserted at<br>J 47 p.6)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>485-486</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>487-488</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>489</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>490</td><td>opp.p.564 (Dr. James)</td><td>iii.22</td></tr><tr><td>491</td><td>opp.p.571 (Flatman)</td><td>iii.29</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>579 "(Take in five leaves)" These are leaves from<br>JB's London journal, 1776. See J 47 p. 63-<br>77.</td><td>iii.39-44</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Sub-papers apart:<br>("potted stories".) To come in on J 47 p.64<br>(iii.40-41)<br>(Ramblers) To come in on J 47 p.70-71<br>(iii.42)<br>("Note) on Chair". To come in on J 47 p.72.<br>(iii.43)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>JB's journal originally read: "He told us he<br>read Fielding's Amelia through standing with<br>a chair in his hand thus (and he stood hold-<br>ing a chair with its back turned to his side)".</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>493-494</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>495</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>496</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>497</td><td>opp.p.580 (SJ to JB, from Bath). In Veronica's hand.<br>591 For passage on Scotland v. Thomson, see MS.<br>p.614 below</td><td>iii.44<br>iii.58-64</td></tr><tr><td>498</td><td>opp.p.604 "H" (Horace)</td><td>iii.73-74</td></tr><tr><td>499-507</td><td>Sub-paper apart: "Note" (follows "H")<br>Sub-papers apart to "Note":</td><td>iii.74 n.1</td></tr><tr><td>(500)</td><td>"P" (Piso)</td><td>(iii.74 n.)</td></tr><tr><td>(504)</td><td>"Sanadon"</td><td>(iii.75 n.)</td></tr><tr><td>(505)</td><td>"Dacier"</td><td>(iii.75 n.)</td></tr><tr><td>508</td><td>614 "Note for p.614, manner"<br>Note: On MS. p.591 JB had given directions to<br>"Go to page 613 and take in". The passage to be<br>taken in concerns JB's law case Scotland v.<br>Thomson (iii.58-64), and, except for part of<br>the first <u>R</u> on MS. p.613, occurs on p.614,<br>which is missing.)</td><td>iii.62 n.1</td></tr><tr><td>509-512</td><td>615 "RR" (Round Robin).<br>This consists of the first 4 leaves of "RR",<br>ending with "Besides this Latin Epitaph".</td><td>iii.82-85</td></tr><tr><td>513</td><td>615 Greek Epitaph (text transcribed by Mr. Arch-<br>bald, see Percy's letter, C 2233).<br>That this was sent to the printer as a paper<br>apart is indicated by pin-holes in the margin;<br>it also still has a fragment of JB's handwrit-<br>ing on a piece of paper attached on its verso<br>by a wafer.<br>The Greek epitaph was the object of changes<br>in the course of the earlier editions. As we<br>see by Percy's letter, JB had received it in<br>1787. In the MS. of the <u>Life</u> it was probably<br>attached to a fifth leaf (now missing) of the<br>Round Robin Paper Apart and was sent to the<br>printer. It duly appears in the 1st ed. II.93.</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

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M 145
p. no.

M 144
p. no.

Hill-Powell
vol. and p. no.

"LL" (contents continued)

(529)

"LL3". "from the other embarrassment ... Ashbourne"

(iii.131)

(letters between JB and SJ, and beginning of note on "Baltick")

(iii.131-35, and 134 n.1)

(530)

"LL4". (Note on Baltick continues:) "of being here today ... Empress"

(iii.134 n.1)

(531)

"LL5". (Note on "Baltick" concludes)

(iii.134 n.1)

(SJ to JB, 11 Sept 1777; JB's arrival at Ashbourne).

(iii.135-36)

(532)

"LL6". begins, "of which it seems the shock"; ends "he found he could not keep it long. [catch-word:] JOHNSON"

(iii.136)

End of "LL"

619

"Then Go to Journal at Ashbourne"

iii.136-211

This is JB's Ashbourne journal. See J 52, pp.23ff.

Sub-papers apart to J 52:

533

p.26 "After breakfast"

(iii.138)

534-540

p.32 "We had with us" (Dodd passage)

(iii.138-43)

(evidently a leaf or leaves missing after p.540)

540

For the note which comes in at "mended it"

(iii.143 n.1)

see <u>post</u>, Papers Apart 891-92.

541-548
(545-548)

"This letter was brought ... executed"

(iii.144-48)

A sub-sub-paper apart "H" (Hawkesbury)

(iii.145-46)

549-550

opp.p.69 "... telling a lie"

(iii.167)

551

opp.p.76 Conclusion of note. In Veronica's

(iii.169 n.1)

hand.

552-554
(553-554)

p.75 (Rutty's diary)

(iii.170-72)

A sub-sub-paper apart "S" (excerpts, etc.)

(iii.171-72)

555-578

(SJ's style; events, 20 and 21 Sept, etc)

(iii.172-85)

Sub-paper apart "BG" (<u>Biographia Britan-nica</u>). ?Inserted in the printed work, 1st ed. II.157.

(iii.174)

(577)

Earl of Corke, introductory <u>P</u>; see J 52, p.92-93

(iii.183)

(578)

Colley Cibber, re-writing of passage; see J 52, p. 95-96

iii.
(184-85)

579

"J" (22 Sept 1777). With directions to take in J 52 p.98-102; ends: "no man ever <u>hax</u> less courted the favour of the great." Catch-word: "During"

(iii.185-89)

"BD" (Bull Dog). Begins: "During this interview! Following the anecdotc, directions to take in J 52, p.104-107? then return to "BD".

(iii.189-211)

580-603

(pp.593,a-f is a Paper Apart 4ft.8 3'4 in. long)

*at J 52 p.104 is a direction to insert a <u>P</u> from MS. <u>Life</u>, p.235:"I cannot allow ..."

(iii.190)

I find no directions for inserting the anecdote about the dead cat, found on J 52 p.47, which in Hill-Powell follows this passage, although JB indicated

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<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>M 145<br>p. no.</th>
      <th>M 144<br>p. no.</th>
      <th>Hill-Powell<br>vol. and p. no.</th>
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  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>580-603</td>
      <td>"BD" (continued)<br>on J 52 p.47 that the anecdote "is<br>not to come in till afterwards."<br>After returning to "BD", p.580, the<br>rewriting continues.</td>
      <td>(iii.189-211)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(588)</td>
      <td>Sub-paper apart "I" (idea)</td>
      <td>(iii.196-97)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(591)</td>
      <td>Sub-paper apart (lines: "O Solitude")</td>
      <td>(iii.197)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(602)</td>
      <td>ends with directions to take in SJ to<br>JB, 25 Nov 1777</td>
      <td>(iii.210-11)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(603)</td>
      <td>This page bears JB's endorsement: "Ash-<br>bourne 1777", indicating the last page<br>of a "packet".</td>
      <td></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>604</td>
      <td>This is the first page of a "Parcel of Let-<br>ters" and "Introduction"; it bears the fol-<br>lowing directions to the printer: "This<br>comes in immediately after the copy last<br>sent, of which the Catch words are, 'When<br>we retired'. But I have altered the phrase to<br>'Afterwards I accompanied him'" Therefore<br>this is the first page of a packet which is<br>to follow JB's packet endorsed (p.603) "Ash-<br>bourne 1777". The text actually continues<br>from M 145, p.593e and f (catchwords "We re-<br>tired") to top of p.595 (the catchwords "We re-<br>tired" here changed to "After supper I accom-<br>panied him") and carries through p.602, end-<br>ing with directions for taking in SJ's let-<br>ter of 25 Nov.</td>
      <td></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>605-606</td>
      <td>At the top of p.606, JB indicates the inser-<br>tion of his letter to SJ of 29 Nov 1777, with<br>the asterisked portion written on the page<br>opposite (i.e. p.605)</td>
      <td>iii.211-12</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>606-612</td>
      <td>The text then resumes on p.606, "about this<br>time". Note directions to the printer on<br>p.612: "After the last letter -- to unite<br>with the copy you have print as follows<br>'On my arrival in London March 17 ...'"</td>
      <td>iii.211-22</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>613-617</td>
      <td>679 (JB to SJ [Apr 1778]; SJ to JB, 23 Apr 1778)<br>679 (JB to Percy 25 Apr [1778]). See L 1062, the<br>original letter.</td>
      <td>iii.277-78<br>iii.278</td>
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      <td>618</td>
      <td>opp.p.709 "TT" (Thomas Tyers)</td>
      <td>iii.308-309</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>619-620</td>
      <td>709 "JS" (SJ as Lord Chancellor)</td>
      <td>iii.309-10</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>621-624</td>
      <td>709 ("Yet no man had")</td>
      <td>iii.310-12</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>625-626</td>
      <td>767 "△ For p. 767" (Saunders Welch)<br>For a copy of part of SJ's letter to Welch,<br>see Papers Apart, p.628<br>This passage appears in the 1st ed. in Vol.<br>II.269-71 (out of its chronological place).<br>In the 2d ed. it was transferred to follow<br>SJ's letter to JB of 24 Jan 1778 (II.605-<br>608), thus placing it chronologically.</td>
      <td>ante iii.216-19</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>627-628</td>
      <td>767 "2d (* for p 767)" ("I wrote to him on the<br>25 of May").<br>Papers Apart, p.628 contains copy of a part<br>of SJ's letter to Welch, in Veronica's hand.</td>
      <td>III.359-60</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

10

<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>M 145<br>p. no.</th>
      <th>M 144<br>p. no.</th>
      <th>Hill-Powell<br>vol. and p. no.</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td></td>
      <td>[??767] (SJ at Warley Camp). See C 1694, Lang-<br>ton to JB, 30 Nov 1790, original letter.<br>FAP suggests the Langton letter was sent<br>to the printer together with its introduc-<br>tory sentence, to be taken in after his own<br>letter of 18 June 1778.</td>
      <td>iii.361-62</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td></td>
      <td>767 (Strahan to JB, 4 Jan 1779). See C 2583, the<br>original letter, which includes a copy of<br>SJ to Strahan, 27 July [1778].</td>
      <td>iii.364</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>629-633</td>
      <td>767 "*(1767)". ("I wrote to him on the 18<br>August ...")</td>
      <td>iii.366-70</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(631)</td>
      <td>Sub-paper apart: (P following SJ's letters<br>for Burney)</td>
      <td>(iii.367)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(632)</td>
      <td>Sub-paper apart: (SJ to John Hussey)</td>
      <td>(iii.369)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(633)</td>
      <td>(SJ writes Dedication for Reynolds's<br>Discourses).</td>
      <td>(iii.369-70)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>634</td>
      <td>768 "Z" ("On the 22 of January")</td>
      <td>iii.371-72</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td></td>
      <td>770 (Conversation, 26 March 1779)<br>See J 64, p.6a (JB's London Journal,<br>1779)</td>
      <td>iii.375-76</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>635-638</td>
      <td>779 (SJ's altercation with Beauclerc)</td>
      <td>iii.384-85</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>639-640</td>
      <td>786 ("On the 20 of September I defended")</td>
      <td>iii.399-400</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>641</td>
      <td>opp.p.792 "M" (Milton)</td>
      <td>iii.405</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>642</td>
      <td>opp.p.792 "Note" (SJ's residences)</td>
      <td>iii.405 n.6</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td></td>
      <td>799 (SJ to Lawrence, 20 Jan 1780)<br>See Papers Apart, "L", ante p.16-17</td>
      <td>iii.419</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>643</td>
      <td>A page of directions to the printer. (Cor-<br>respondence between Mrs. Thrale at Bath and<br>SJ; texts and directions for inserting two<br>foot-notes. Probably accompanied the other<br>material concerned. It is headed by inform-<br>ation for the note on Dunbar (iii.436).</td>
      <td></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>644-650</td>
      <td>799 "1st Continuation of page (1799 [error for<br>799])". ("On the 2 of May I wrote to him"),<br>a re-writing of part of MS. p.799, following<br>the Lawrence letter. For the quotation from<br>Langton's letter, see C 1688 (original).</td>
      <td>iii.424-433</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(645-650)</td>
      <td>Sub-paper apart: "R" (Riots)</td>
      <td>(iii.427-433)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(649-650)</td>
      <td>Sub-sub-paper apart: "A" (Akerman)<br>"1st Continuation" (p.644) ends with JB's<br>introduction of his brother, which is con-<br>tinued on p.651.</td>
      <td>(iii.431-432)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>651-657</td>
      <td>799 "2 Continuation of page 1799."</td>
      <td>iii.433-441</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(653-654)</td>
      <td>Sub-papers apart: (SJ to Beattie, 21 Aug<br>1780). Copy, in Beattie's hand.</td>
      <td>(iii.434-35)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(655-656)</td>
      <td>"Note on Africa p 323 of the Print"<br>(i.e. 1st ed., II.323 n.3)</td>
      <td>(iii.435 n.4)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(657)</td>
      <td>"@" (to come in on p.651: "My next<br>letters were dated")</td>
      <td>(iii.438)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>658</td>
      <td>799 "3 Continuation of p --- 799" (directions<br>for taking in SJ to JB 17 Oct 1780; fol-<br>lowed by introduction to Langtoniana --<br>continued on MS. Life, ante p. 356)</td>
      <td>iii.441-442, iv.1</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

11

<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>M 145<br>p. no.</th>
      <th>M 144<br>p. no.</th>
      <th>Hill-Powell<br>vol. and p. no.</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>659-725</td>
      <td>799</td>
      <td>Langtoniana. Series is numbered 1-27;<br>Nos. 1, 16, and part of 20 are in Langton's<br>hand, remainder in JB's.</td>
      <td>iv.2-27, 30</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>726</td>
      <td>799</td>
      <td>("This year the Reverend Dr. Francklin")</td>
      <td>iv.34</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>727-772</td>
      <td>801</td>
      <td>"Poets". Leaves numbered by JB 1-32. With<br>SubPapers Apart:<br>"L" (Lock). Comes in on leaf No.7</td>
      <td>iv.35-63</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(737)</td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
      <td>(iv.42-43)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(739)</td>
      <td></td>
      <td>"RC". Comes in on leaf No. 8</td>
      <td>(iv.44-45)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(749)</td>
      <td></td>
      <td>"Note for back of Poets p. 15" (Somerville)</td>
      <td>(iv.50 n.2)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(763-764)</td>
      <td></td>
      <td>"Lanky". For JB's directions to Mr. Plym-<br>sell for inserting "Lanky", see post p.<br>773 (<u>Life</u>. iv.59)</td>
      <td>(iv.59)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(771-772)</td>
      <td></td>
      <td>Papers Apart p. 771 (leaf 32 of "Poets") ends<br>with directions to the printer for resuming the<br>text of the MS. on MS. p.801-802, for bringing<br>in the Hastings "Parcel", and for continuing the<br>narrative thereafter. Page 772 (verso of 771)<br>provides the introducing SJ's letter of 14 Mar<br>1781 (iv.71).</td>
      <td></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>773-781</td>
      <td></td>
      <td>"Hastings Parcel"<br>Sub-papers apart:<br>"While Johnson is thus contemplated"</td>
      <td>iv.66-70</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(773-774)</td>
      <td></td>
      <td>(Hastings to JB, 2 Dec 1790).<br>See C 1505 (original letter)</td>
      <td>(if.66)<br>(iv.66-67)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(775)</td>
      <td></td>
      <td>Back cover of the Parcel, bearing address of<br>Baldwin, the Printer, and message from JB.</td>
      <td></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(776-781)</td>
      <td></td>
      <td>(SJ to Hastings, 30 March and 20 Dec 1774).<br>Copy by James Ross, and by Sandy Boswell,<br>respectively. Note: the third letter, 9 Jan<br>1781, is not in the collection.</td>
      <td>(iv.68-70)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>782</td>
      <td>805</td>
      <td>"For Mr. Plymself" (Milton's lines on Adam)</td>
      <td>iv.72-73 n.3</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>783</td>
      <td>806</td>
      <td>(SJ's dictated paper on Registration of<br>Deeds).</td>
      <td>iv.74</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>784-789</td>
      <td>808</td>
      <td>(proper behaviour of the clergy -- "Nor was<br>it only")</td>
      <td>iv.76-77</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>(788-789)</td>
      <td></td>
      <td>Sub-paper apart: (SJ's character of Mudge)</td>
      <td>(iv.77)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td></td>
      <td>816</td>
      <td>(SJ's note to the Literary Club on the death<br>of Thrale). See C 1603 (original).</td>
      <td>iv.84</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>790</td>
      <td>838</td>
      <td>"P" (<u>Poets</u>)</td>
      <td>iv.107</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>791-794</td>
      <td>839</td>
      <td>"BS." (Blue-stocking)</td>
      <td>iv.108-110</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>795-796</td>
      <td>839</td>
      <td>"For V. No.1". Really a sub-paper apart to<br>"V" (Varia); it is the first anecdote of<br>the series. In John Nichols's hand, writ-<br>ten on a discarded letter wrapper addressed<br>to him. The papers in "V" are numbered 1-3<br>by JB.</td>
      <td>iv.110-11</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>797-805</td>
      <td>839</td>
      <td>"V" (Varia). ("While I remained").<br>Paper Apart p.802 contains the anecdote a-<br>bout SJ and Capt. Brodie; the passage was<br>deleted, then marked "stet", but was not<br>used in the <u>Life</u>.<br>Pages 804-805, quot. from Dryden's <u>Preface</u><br>in continuation of JB's note (iv.114 n.1),<br>is in Veronica's hand.</td>
      <td>iv.110-14 and n.1,<br>115</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

"TW" (Papers Apart p.147-191): Contents

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th></th><th></th><th>Hill-Powell</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>"TW"p.2-2<sup>2d</sup></td><td>Paper Apart p.149-52</td><td>16 July 1754</td><td>"It is but an ill return"</td><td></td><td>i.270-71</td></tr><tr><td>"TW"p.2<sup>2d</sup>-4</td><td>" " p.152-56</td><td>28 Nov 1754</td><td>"I am extremely obliged"</td><td></td><td>i.275-76</td></tr><tr><td>"TW"p.4-6</td><td>" " p.156-59</td><td>21 Dec 1754</td><td>"I am extremely sensible"</td><td></td><td>i.276-77</td></tr><tr><td>"TW"p.7-10</td><td>" " p.160-65</td><td>1, 4, and 13) Feb 1755 )</td><td>These were inserted in the printed work</td><td></td><td>i.278, 278-79, 279</td></tr><tr><td>"TW"p.11</td><td>" " p.166-67</td><td>Feb 1755</td><td>"Dr. King was with me"</td><td></td><td>i.279-80</td></tr><tr><td>"TW"p.11-12</td><td>" " p.167-69</td><td>20 Mar 1755</td><td>"After I received my Diploma"</td><td></td><td>i.282-83</td></tr><tr><td>"TW"p.13,16</td><td>" " p.170-72</td><td>25 Mar 1755</td><td>"Though not to write"</td><td></td><td>i.283-84</td></tr><tr><td>"TW"p.16,16v.</td><td>" " p.171-73</td><td>13 May 1755</td><td>"I am grieved"</td><td></td><td>i.289</td></tr><tr><td>"TW"p.16v.-17</td><td>" " p.173-174</td><td>10 June 1755</td><td>"It is strange"</td><td></td><td>i.289-90</td></tr><tr><td>"TW"p.17-17v.</td><td>" " p.174-75</td><td>24 June 1755</td><td>"To talk of coming"</td><td></td><td>i.290</td></tr><tr><td>"TW"p.17v-18v.</td><td>" " p.175-77</td><td>7 Aug 1755</td><td>"I told you"</td><td></td><td>i.290-91</td></tr><tr><td>"TW"p.18v-19</td><td>" " p.177-79 (JB's note, p.178)</td><td>21 June 1757</td><td>"Dr Marsili of Padua"</td><td></td><td>i.322-23</td></tr><tr><td>"TW"p.19-19v.</td><td>Paper Apart p.179-80</td><td>14 Apr 1758</td><td>"Your notes upon my poet"</td><td></td><td>i.335-36</td></tr><tr><td>"TW"p.20-21</td><td>" " p.181-83</td><td>1 June 1758</td><td>"You will receive"</td><td></td><td>i.336-337</td></tr><tr><td>"TW"p.21-22</td><td>" " p.182-84</td><td>23 June 1770</td><td>"The readiness"</td><td></td><td>ii.114-15</td></tr><tr><td>"TW"p.22-23</td><td>" " p.184-86</td><td>31 May 1769</td><td>"Many years ago"</td><td></td><td>ii.67-68</td></tr><tr><td>"TW"p.24, [25-26v]</td><td>" " p.187-91</td><td>21 Nov 1754</td><td>Letter to Sir Robert Chambers</td><td></td><td>i.274</td></tr></tbody></table>

*Miscellaneous.*—*Legacies to Maid Servants.*—*Pied Piper.*—*Dunton.* 287

MR. URBAN,

YOUR labours, it is prefumed, may not improperly be compared to the affiduity of perſons collecting the remains of ſome valuable piece, which accident or time has demolified; or to a ſhipwreck, the planks of which (lays the great lord Bacon) induſtrious and wife men ſnatch up and preſerve from the deluge of time. The inflection of the following odds and ends will contribute much to the ſatistaction of yours,

H. LEMOINE.

Paragraph from the *Poſt Angel*\*, a periodic paper, published in 1701, and carried on or written by that queer projector and bookfeller, John Dunton.

" July 12. One Mr. Wood, who died about three years ſince, deputy of Langbourn Ward, having left a ſettlement, that any maid-fervant who ſhould keep in her place twenty years, ſhould receive at the expiration of that term 201, on Friday laſt, a maid in Tower-street challenged the legacy; and making it appear he was lawfully entitled thereto, he received it to a farthing."

A precedent of the fame in St. Andrew's pariah, Holborn, where a perſon has bequeathed ten pounds to every maid-fervant who lives ſeven years in her place. Query, Who made this provifion; and whether this, as well as the former, are yet paid; and, if discontinued, to what life he has the fund been appropriated?

Is the ſtory of the devil going in the likeneſs of a pied piper into the town of Hamel, in Saxony, June 20, 1484, and enticing away 130 children, a faſt, and related by credible authors?

It is well known, that wigs were firſt worn here in the reign of Charles II. the importation of that ſaſhion being the aſt of that monarch and his courtiers. But might it not be worth while enquiring into the date of hair-dreſſing, and whence it came immediately; it being a notoriouse faſt, that the firſt ſteſſors here were foreigners.

A correſpondent of yours ſome time ſince required ſome account of the above ſingular genius. The following notices are copied from the MS. of Mr. C. Eve, late of Hoxton-square, an induſtrious antiquarian collector, whoſe books and papers have been unortunately ſcattered, and many loft. Dunton appears to have been a native of Kent, from this account being in a class ſuperſcribed, "Parochial, &c. Antiquities of Canterbury;" but the precife time of his birth is not mentioned.

He was in busineſs upwards of twenty years, during which time he traded considerably in the Stationers Company. However, about the beginning of the preſent century he failed, and commenced author, and in 1701 was amanuensis to the editor of the forementioned Poſt Angel. He ſoon after ſet up a writer for the entertainment of the public, and projected and carried on, with the affiſance of others, the Athenian Mercury; or a ſcheme to anſwer a ſeries of queſtions monthly, the querift remaining conceal ed. This work was continued to about twenty volumes, and afterwards reprinted by Bell, under the title of the Athenian Oracle, in four volumes octavo. In 1710 he published his "Athenianifm, or the new Projects of Mr. John Dunton, Author of the Effay on the Hazard of a Death-bed Repentance." This contains, amidſt a prodigious variety of matter, fix hundred treatiſes in profe and verſe, by which he appears to have been, with equal facility, a philofopher, phytician, poet, civilian, divine, hnmouriſt, &c. &c. To this work he has prefixed his portrait, engraved by M. Vander Gucht; and in a preface, which breathes all the pride of ſelf-conſequence, inſorms his readers, he does not write to flatter, or for hire. As a specimen of this miſeſable ſarago, take the following heads of ſubjects. "The Funeral of Mankind, a Paradox, proving we are all dead and buried. The spiritual Hedgeog; or, a new and ſurprifing Thought. The double Life; or, a new way to redeem Time, by living over To-morrow before it comes. Dunton preaching to himſelf; or, every man his own Parfon." "His Creed; or, the Religion of a Bookfeller, in imitation of Brown's Religio Medici," has ſome honour and merit. This he dedicated to the Stationers Company. As a ſatridt, he appears to moſt advantage in his poems, entitled, "the Beggar mounted; the diffenting Doctors; Parnaffus hoa!! or, Frolics in Verſe: Dunton's Shadow; or, the Character of a Summer Friend." Throughout the whole of his writings he is exceeding prolix and tedious, and fometimes obſcure. "His Cafe is altered; or, Dunton's Re-marriage to his own Wife," has ſome ſingular notions, but very little merit in the composition. For further particulars of this heterogeneous genius, fee "Dunton's Life and Errors,"† a book not now in my poſſeflion, ſome-what ſcarce.
H. L.

\* We particularly wifh to be favoured with a fight of the *Poſt Angel*. EDIT.

† See Granger, vol. II. part 2. p. 416.

Mr.

C 2221 (on M 145, p.265)

This probably contained franks or papers Penn
was transmitting to JB. It is not in Penn's
handwriting -- I should say it was in John
Courtenay's. Penn was franking for JB in 1790
(see letters from 2 March to 2 June 1790).

For dating: on progress of the *Life*,

9 Apr 1790 (JB to Langton) 20 sheets, 160 p.
printed.

2 June 1790 (to Sandy) 272 pages printed. The
Journal shows him revising, but slowed down
by Temple's visit. I think [?May 1790] is
a reasonable date.

LABENTÈ SECULO,
QUUM HOMINES NULLIUS ORIGINIS
GENUS AEQUARE OPIBUS AGGREDIUNTUR,
SANGUINIS ANTIQUI ET ILLUSTRIS
SEMPER MEMORI,
NATALIUM SPLENDOREM VIRTUTIBUS AUGENTI:

AD PUBLICA POPULI COMITIA
JAM LEGATO;

IN OPTIMATIUM VERO MAGNAE BRITANNIAE SENATU,
JURE HAEREDITARIO,

OLIM CONSESSURO:
VIM INSITAM VARIA DOCTRINA PROMOVENTE,

NEC TAMEN SE VENDITANTE,
PRAEDITO:

PRISCA FIDE, ANIMO LIBERRIMO,
ET MORUM ELEGANTIA

INSIGNI:
IN ITALIAE VISITANDAE ITINERE,

SOCIO SUO HONORATISSIMO,
HASCE JURISPRUDENTIAE PRIMITIAS

DEVINCTISSIMAE AMICITIAE ET OBSERVANTIAE
MONUMENTUM,

D. D. C Q.

JACOBUS BOSWELL.

M 145, p. 479-482

"W" follows Paper Apart "E", p.478, as a sub-Paper Apart.

The first part of "W", which evidently bore
the mark "W", is missing. The missing portion
is the paragraph "Above thirty years ago ...
Alma Mater" (<u>Life</u>.ii.424).

Papers Apart, p.479-482 consist of SJ's letter
to Wetherell, the first paragraph of which is
written on the blank verso of an almanac leaf
with heading, "Dr. Johnson To Mr. Wetherell
about establishing Mr. Carter as riding Master
at Oxford". The remainder of the letter, written on 2 folio leaves is headed: "Part of a kz Letter from Dr. Johnson To Dr. Wetherell Master of University College Oxford containing the science of Bookselling. Copied by me J.B. Oxford 1776", see Journal for 20 and 21 March 1776.

It would seem that JB at first copied what is
on the folio leaves, and later obtained the
first paragraph which was really needed in order to explain "the Doctor's letter" with which
his copy of 1776 begins.

The Paper Apart (p. 482) also contains JB's
note, <u>Life</u> ii.426 n.1.

Fortrofe Whitfunday Fair, 3 Wedneſt. Stenton, laſt Tuesday. Saline market, 14. O. S. Fouldon Summer fair for black cattle, horse and sheep, laſt Wednesday O. S. Meikleour Market, laſt Friday.

1. Meikleour, 2 Day. Portrie, laſt Wednesday. Greenock, 1 Th. Carnwath, 1 Thur. Kelſo, 10 Day. Eccleſechan Market, Friday after 11 Day. Auchtermuchty, 13 Day. St. Bofwell, 18 Day. Moſſat, 29 Day, or Tuesday after. Forfar, Ormifton, and Peebles, 1 Tuesday. Dunfermline and Leven, 1 Wed. Galafhiels, 8 day. Mellerſtain, 2 Tu. O.S. Haddington, 2 Tuesday. Tain, 2 Wed. Hamilton, 2 Thursday. Kirkcaldy, 3 Wed. Paldy Fair, 1 Tu. after 11 Day. Stirling, laſt Day. Gartmore, 7 Day. Buchlyvie, laſt Tuesday. O. S. Anſtruther E. 5 Day. Torryburn, 2 Wed. Strathſillan in Breadalbane, 3 Day. Yetſholm and Eddleftone, 5 day. Falkirk, 10 day. Lauder, 4 Friday. Kenmore in Breadalbane and Down, 26 Day. Mellerſtain and Culfalmond, 2 Tuesday. Largs, 3 Tuesday. Elgin, laſt Tuesday. Falkirk, laſt Tuesday. O.S. Lanerk, laſt Wed. O.S. Machline, 22 Day. O. S. Newmills, 2 Wed. O. S. Kinroſs, 3 Wed. O. S. Glaſgow, 2 Mon. Kilmarnock, 3 Wed. O.S. Coupar in Fife, 25 day, O.S. Ochterairder, 2 Tuesday. O.S. Carſtairs, 2 Th. O. S. Dornoch, 22 day, O.S. or Wed. after. Strichen, 1 Tuesday. O.S. Bathgate, 3 Wed. N. S. Oldhamſtocks, first Tuesday. Coldstream Summer Fair, July 30, Mond. and Sat. excepted. Strichen, Huntly, 1 Tuesday, O.S. Old Deer, Aicky-fair, 2 Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, O.S. for Horſes, Cattle, Sheep, &c. Tarvas 3 Tu. O.S. Turreff laſt Tu. O.S. Rothfay 2 Wednesday O.S. Culroſs, laſt Tuesday. St. Andrews, 1st day O.S. Perth, 5th day. Lillias day 3 Tuesday. O.S. Dornoch, 1 Wed. N. S.

AUGUST. Linlithgow, 2 Day. Muthel and St. James's Fair near Kelſo, 5 Day. Melroſe, 12 Day. Meikleour, 19 Day. Eccleſechan, 26 Day, or Friday. Auchtermuchty, 21 Day. Danſe, 26 Day. Forfar and Dunfermline, 1 Tuesday. Penſton and Parkhead, 1 Wed. Oldrain, Muſſelburgh, Dumbarton and Jedburgh, 2 Tuesday. Inverkeithing, 2 Wed. Strathaven and Paſſley, 2 Thursday, 1 Tu. after 11 Day. Irvine, 3 Mond. Ochtergeaven, 2 Wed. N. S. Lawrence Fair, Carnwath, 3 Tu. Tain, 3 Wednesday. Dyſart, 4 Wednesday. Nairn, laſt Wednesday. Dundee and Inverneſs, 15 day. Falkirk, 26 Day. Peebles Ta. before the 24. Stranraer, laſt Friday. Lauder, 4 Friday. Falkirk, laſt Tuesday. O.S. Lanerk, laſt Friday. O.S. Machline, laſt Tuesday. O.S. Newmills, 22 Day. O.S. Ochterairder, 2 day, O.S. Strichen, 2 Tuesday. Hamilton, 2 Thursday. O.S. Falkland, 1 Thursday. after 12 day. Lockerby 2 day, O.S. or Tuesday after. Moſtimuſk, 3 Wed. Cockburnspath, 2 Tuesday. Bathgate 3 Wed. N. S. Dunblane, 10 day, O.S. Lady Fair, at Granton near

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