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Samuel Johnson's private interview with George III : the Strahan minute.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio PR3533 .S326 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Interviews.
- Johnson, Samuel.
- Boswell, James, 1740-1795. Life of Samuel Johnson.
- Boswell, James.
- Strahan, William, 1715-1785.
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
- Authors, English--18th century--Interviews.
- Authors, English.
- England--Intellectual life--18th century.
- England.
- Intellectual life.
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
- George.
- Strahan, William, 1715-1785--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.
- Strahan, William.
- Life of Samuel Johnson (Boswell, James).
- Genre:
- Manuscripts.
- Facsimiles.
- Interviews.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Traister, Daniel (donor) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 18 unnumbered pages : facsimiles ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Strahan minute
- Place of Publication:
- [Tempe?] : for the Friends of the Arizona State University Library, 1993.
- Notes:
- One of the sources for the account of the interview with the King that appears in James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson (1791); it may be based on a letter from William Strahan, Johnson's printer and friend, to William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester--P. [2].
- Includes the account of the interview excerpted from Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.
- "The manuscript of the Strahan Minute, formerly owned by S.C. Roberts, is now in the collection of Lawrence G. Blackmon"--Page [4].
- Introd. signed by Lawrence G. Blackmon and O M Brack, Jr.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Daniel Traister.
- RBC copy has birth announcement for Remiel Moses Baskin, child of Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser & Hosea Thomas Baskin, born September 28th, 2002, laid in.
- Contains:
- Boswell, James, 1740-1795. Life of Samuel Johnson. Selections
- OCLC:
- 31641828
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