George Steevens
"Memoir of Robert Levet, the Inmate of Dr. Johnson for near thirty
Years. Written by the late George Steevens, Esq. the celebrated
Commentator on Shakespeare. (Not published in Boswell's Memoirs of
Johnson.)" (53.189-190). Volume 53 of the EM is for
January
to June, 1808; the account of Levet had appeared, anonymously, in the
Gentleman's Magazine for January to June 1785. An editorial
footnote in the Gentleman's states that the letter "originally
appeared in the St. James's Chronicle, but with some mistakes which are
here corrected; and an original letter of Dr. Johnson's is also added" (p.
101). Steevens wrote much for the St. James's Chronicle, and
thanks to the EM reprinting of the Gentleman's
account we now know the authority for the completest account of Robert
Levet.