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Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.
Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson LlD Author:Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER CLXXXVI. To Mrs. T H R A L E. DEAREST LADY, Aflibourne, Oft. i6, i777. y AM juft going out, and can write but little How you fhould be long withou... more »t a letter I know not, for I feldom mils a poft. I pur- pofe now to come to London as foon as I can, for I have a deal to look after, but hope I mall get through the whole bufmefs. I wifh you had told me your adventure, or told me nothing. Be civil to Lord , he feems to be a good kind of man. Mif$ may change her mind; and will change it, when fhe finds herfelf get more credit by dancing than by whift; and though me fhould continue to like, as lhe likes now, the harm is none. Do not yet begin, dear Madam, to think about the lafl. You may well dance thefe dozen years, if you keep your looks as youhave yet kept them ; and I am glad that Hetty has no defign to dance you down. The poor P . I am forry for the girl; fhe feems to be doomed, before her time, to weaknefs and folicitude. What is that Bed- rider the fupervifor ? He will be up again. But life feems to be clofmg upon them. I hope you ftill continue to be fick, and my dear mafter to be well. I am no fender of compliments, but take them once for all, and deliver them to be kept as rarities by Mifs Owen, Mrs. Nefbit, Mifs Hetty, and Dr. Burney. Still direct to Lichfield, for thither I am haftening; and from Lichfield to London, nd from London I hope to Brighthelrnftone, and from Brighthelmftone qua terra patet, I am, deareft of all dear Ladies, Your, LETTER CLXXXVII. To Mrs. T H R A L E. DEAR MADAM, Lichfield, Oftober 22, i777. T Am come, at laft, to Lichfield, and am really - glad that I am got away from a place where there was indeed no evil, but very little good. You may, I believe, write once to Lichfield after you receive t...« less