![]() | The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume V: Appendices and Comprehensive Index Subjects: JOHNSON SAMUEL -- 1709–1784 -- CORRESPONDENCE; AUTHORS ENGLISH -- 18TH CENTURY -- CORRESPONDENCE; LEXICOGRAPHERS -- GREAT BRITAIN -- CORRESPONDENCE; With these two volumes Princeton University Press concludes the first scholarly edition of the letters of Samuel Johnson to appear in forty years. Volume IV chronicles the last three years of Johnson's life, an epistolary endgame that includes the breakup of the friendship with Hester Thrale and a poignant reaching out to new friends and new experiences. Volume V includes not only the comprehensive index but those undated letters that cannot confidently be assigned to a specific year, "ghost" letters (those whose existence is documented in other sources), three letters that have recently been recovered, and translations of Johnson's letters in Latin. Bruce Redford is Professor of English at the University of Chicago and the author of The Converse of the Pen: Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter (Chicago). |
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