Johnson in London

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

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Photograph Gilbert Walmsley. Letter to John Colson. March 2, 1737. Manuscript. Samuel Johnson. London. 1738. Manuscript.

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Photograph Samuel Johnson. London, a Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal. London: R. Doddesley, 1738. Richard Savage. Sir Thomas Overbury: A Tragedy. 1723. Manuscript.

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Photograph Thomas Osborne. Proposals for Printing by Subscription the Two First Volumes of Bibliotheca Harleiana. [London: T. Osborne], 1742. Thomas Osborne. Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae. [London: T. Osborne],
1743-45.

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Photograph Samuel Johnson. The Vanity of Human Wishes. 1748. Manuscript.

 Samuel Johnson. Receipt to Robert Dodsley for The Vanity of Human Wishes. 1748. Manuscript. Photograph
       
Photograph Samuel Johnson. The Vanity of Human Wishes. London: R. Dodsley, 1749. Samuel Johnson. Act V of Irene. 1746. Manuscript.

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Photograph Samuel Johnson. Irene: a Tragedy. London: R. Dodsley, 1749.