AN

ACCOUNT

OF THE

LIFE

OF

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON,

FROM HIS BIRTH TO HIS ELEVENTH YEAR,

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

ORIGINAL LETTERS

ΤΟ

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON,

BY MISS HILL BOOTHBY:

From the MSS. preserved by the Doctor; and
now in Possession of RICHARD WRIGHT,
Surgeon; Proprietor of the Museum of
Antiquities, Natural and Artificial Curiosi-
ties, &c. Lichfield.

London:

PRINTED FOR RICHARD PHILLIPS,
No. 6, BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS;
By NICHOLS and SON, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street.

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PREFACE,

IT will be expected, that the Editor of the following curious and interesting pages should give an account of the manner in which the original MSS. came into his possession.

Mr. Boswell, in his admirable Life of Dr. Johnson, thus observes * :

"The consideration of the numerous papers of which he was possessed seems to have struck Johnson's

* Vol. II. p. 573, 4to edition.