Noel Turner: Account of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson's Visit to Cambridge in 1765

Scope and Content

Noel Turner: Account of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson's Visit to Cambridge in 1765

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Formerly belonged to Col. F. R. C. Grant, and possibly presented by him.

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Bibliography

Turner's account was first printed in the New Monthly Magazine for Dec. 1818, and was reprinted in James Boswell's Life of Johnson, 2, pp. 330-41. This copy appears to be taken from the New Monthly Magazine.

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