Letters Of Samuel Johnson Ll D Vol 1 Of 2

Excerpt from Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL. D, Vol. 1 of 2: Oct. 30, 1731-Dec. 21, 1776 Club, a set of men who, he maintained, were sufficient worthily to fill all the chairs of a University I. So far as we know he did not write a single letter to Edmund Burke he wrote more than 300 to the wife of a Southwark brewer. With such ardour did he keep up the correspondence that in nine weeks of the summer of 177 5 he wrote to her thirty times. Let us for once be thank ful for the old abuse of the franking system, by which these letters were carried free of postage. Had he had to pay the usual charge of fourpence on each he would, I fear have remembered, as he once bade Mrs. Thrale remember, that three groats make a shilling and he would have written far less frequently. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.