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Preface David L. Vander Meulen Bruce Redford
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J. D. Fleeman: A Memoir by David Fairer
  
The Publications of J. D. Fleeman by David Fairer
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Pope in the Private and Public Spheres: Annotations in the Second Earl of Oxford's Volume of Folio Poems, 1731-1736 by James McLaverty
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Samuel Johnson and the Translations of Jean Pierre de Crousaz'sExamen and Commentaire by O M Brack, Jr.
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Dr. Hoadly's 'Poems Set to Music by Dr. Greene' by Keith Maslen
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Virtual Readers: The Subscribers to Fielding's Miscellanies (1743) by Hugh Amory
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Eighteenth-Century Authors and the Abuse of the Franking System by James E. Tierney
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The Preliminaries to Dr. Johnson's Dictionary: Authorial Revisions and the Establishment of the Texts by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.
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Textual Transformations: The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus in Johnson's Dictionary by Anne McDermott
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Richard Hurd's Editions of Horace and the Bowyer Ledgers by Donald D. Eddy
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From the Bishop of Gloucester to Lord Hailes: The Correspondence of William Warburton and David Dalrymple by Donald W. Nichol
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Letter 1 9 May 1762 NLS: MS 25295, ff. 120-121
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Letter 26 March 1764 NLS: MS 25295, ff. 122-123
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Letter 328 March 1764 NLS: MS 25295, ff. 124-125
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Letter 4 30 March 1764 NLS: MS 25295, ff. 126-127
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Letter 5 13 October 1764 NLS: MS 25295, ff. 128-129
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Letter 6 27 May 1765 NLS: MS 25295, ff. 130-131
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Letter 7 16 June 1765 NLS: MS 25295, ff. 132-133
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Letter 8 24 June 1765 NLS: MS 25295, ff. 134-135
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Letter 9 18 July 1765 NLS: MS 25295, ff. 136-137
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Letter 10 5 April 1766 NLS: MS 25295, ff. 138-139
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Letter 11 23 March 1767 NLS: MS 25295, ff. 140-141
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Letter 12 23 April 1767 NLS: MS 25295, ff. 142-143
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Letter 13 26 October 1768 NLS: MS 25295, ff. 144-145
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Letter 1419 April 1769 NLS: MS 25295, ff. 146-147
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Letter 15 14 June 1769 NLS: MS 25295, ff. 148-149
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Letter 16 2 February 1770 NLS: MS 25295, ff. 150-151
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Letter 17 21 February 1772 NLS: MS 25295, ff. 152-153
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Letter 18 5 March 1772 NLS: MS 25295, f.154
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Letter 19 30 June 1772 NLS: MS 25295, ff. 155-156
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Letter 20 26 March 1773 NLS: MS 25295, ff.157-158
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Letter 21 18 December 1773 NLS: MS 25295, ff.159-160
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Letter 22 8 April 1774 NLS: MS 25295, ff.161-162
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Letter 23 24 April 1774 NLS: MS 25295, ff.163-164
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Letter 24 October 1774 NLS: MS 25295, ff.165-166
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Letter 25 15 December 1774 NLS: MS 25295, ff.167-168
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Letter 26 29 February 1776 NLS: MS 25295, f.169
  
Notes
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Patchwork and Piracy: John Bell's "Connected System of Biography" and the Use of Johnson's Prefaces by Thomas F. Bonnell
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Scott's Commentary on The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson by Ann Bowden and William B. Todd
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Whose Mistress? Thomas Hardy's Theatrical Collaboration by Pamela Dalziel
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Signing by the Page by B. J. McMullin
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Printing History and Other History by G. Thomas Tanselle
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With an O (Yorks.) or an I (Salop.)? The Middle English Lyrics of British Library Additional 45896 by Ralph Hanna III

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Letter 4
30 March 1764
NLS: MS 25295, ff. 126-127

Sir

I have got, since I sent my last, Hales's sermons, & I find, that eo dulcius is a kind of fanatical speech of Fulgentius[16] concerning inspiration and means that where Truth speaks without the use of speech or writing, there, the more secret the information is, the more delightfull. Sancti magis quam scite[17] I see is to be understood in the second sense I gave it, of not inquiring with too

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much curiosity into divine matters, but receiving them as they are delivered in the simplicity of a pious mind.

Sir your most obedient
humble Servant
W. Gloucester G.S. March 30 1764
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