The life of Samuel Johnson, , comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons . cient ormodern, forgotten poems, that deserverevival, or loose pieces, like Floyers worthpreserving. By this method, your literaryarticle, for so it might be called, will, hethinks, be better recommended to thepublic than by low jests, awkward buffoonery, or the dull scurrilities of eitherparty. If such a correspondence will be agreeable to you, be pleased to inform mein two posts, what the
The life of Samuel Johnson, , comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons . cient ormodern, forgotten poems, that deserverevival, or loose pieces, like Floyers worthpreserving. By this method, your literaryarticle, for so it might be called, will, hethinks, be better recommended to thepublic than by low jests, awkward buffoonery, or the dull scurrilities of eitherparty. If such a correspondence will be agreeable to you, be pleased to inform mein two posts, what the conditions are on which you shall expect it. Your lateoffei^ gives me no reason to distrust your generosity. If you engage in anyliterary projects besides this paper, I have other designs to impart, if I couldbe secure from having others reap the advantage of what I should hint. Your letter by being directed to S. Smith, to be left at the Castle, inBirmingham, Warwickshire, will reach Your humble servant. Mr. Cave has put a note to this letter, Answered, Dec. 2. Butwhether anything was done in consequence of it we are not had, from his early youth, been sensible to the influence of. EDWARD CAVE. 1 Miss Cave, the grand-niece of Mr. Edward Cave, has obligingly shown me the originals ofthis and the other letters of Dr. Johnson to him, which were first published in the Gentle-mans Magazine, with notes by Mr. John Nichols, the worthy and indefatigable editor of thatvaluable miscellany, signed N.; some of which I shall occasionally transcribe in the course ofthis work.—Boswell. 2 Sir John Floyers Treatise on Cold Baths. Gentlemans Magazine, 1734, p. 197.——Boswell. 3 A prize of fifty pounds for the best poem on Life, Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Gentlemans Magazine, vol. iv. p. 560.—Nichols. Age 25.] BOSWELls LIFE OF JOHNSON. 89 female charms. When at Stourbridge school, he was much enamouredof Olivia Lloyd, a young quaker, to whom he wrote a copy of
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