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Title: Samuel Johnson Collection
Dates (inclusive): 1753-1916
Collection Number: mssHM 20821-20833, HM 40960-40967
Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
Extent:
22 items in 1 box
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection contains 21 letters and drawings related to or by English writer Samuel Johnson
(1709-1784) that were previously bound together in one volume.
Language: English.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services
Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.
[Identification of item]. Samuel Johnson Collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Purchased from George D. Smith, April 1919.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was an English lexicographer, writer, and critic.
This collection contains 21 letters and drawings related to or by English writer Samuel Johnson that were previously bound
together in one volume.
Items include six letters by Samuel Johnson to various recipients: publisher Thomas Longman (HM 20824); Samuel Richardson
(HM 20821);
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (HM 20825);
Nathan Wetherell (HM 20826); and two letters to John Taylor (HM 20822, HM 20827), as well
as an 1841 letter from Taylor (HM 20823) and notes by Johnson scholar George Birkbeck Hill (HM 40967) about the June 23, 1784,
letter from Johnson to Taylor.
There are also single letters from Alexander Johnson (HM 20828); William Seward (HM 20829); James Boswell to his daughter
(HM 20830); Hester Lynch Piozzi (HM 20831); Sir Joshua Reynolds (HM 20832);
and William Cowper (HM 20833) to various individuals (not Samuel Johnson).
There are also seven drawings and one 1916 newspaper clipping. The drawings include an unfinished drawing of Sir Joshua Reynolds,
Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, and others (HM 40960), copies of portraits of Johnson, and images of locations related to Johnson.
Items were originally bound in a folio black straight-grained morocco binding that was disbound in 1975.
The collection is arranged in call number order in one box.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 -- Pictorial works.
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Archives.
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Pictorial works.
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Portraits.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792 -- Pictorial works.
Authors, English -- 18th century -- Archives.
Authors, English -- 18th century -- Pictorial works.
Drawings -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
Drawings -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
Letters (correspondence) -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
Boswell, James, 1740-1795, correspondent.
Buckler, John, 1770-1851, artist.
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, addressee.
Cowper, William, 1731-1800, correspondent.
Hill, George Birkbeck Norman, 1835-1903.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, correspondent.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, correspondent.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761, addressee.
Seward, William, 1747-1799, correspondent.
Smith, Charles John, artist.
Smith, George D. (George Dallas), 1870-1920, former owner.
Taylor, John, 1711-1788, correspondent.
Trotter, Thomas, 1756-1803, artist.