xxxii ADDITIONAL NOTES AND CORRECTIONS. (VOL. I.)
of Albemarle-street, the text of the receipts referred to. " Received from Mr.
«three guineas for a pamphlet respecting the Cock-lane Ghost. OI.IVBB, GO
" March 5th 1762." "Received from Mr. Kewbery eleven guineas and an half fo^
" Abridgment of Plutarch's Lives, March 5th 1762. OHVBB. GOIDSMITH." J
notes to Newbery quoted as to the latter compilation are on scraps of paper, wa-fe*~°c.'
or sent open, and evidently sent by hand. The receipt at the bottom of page 300-Sp 1 1S
dated 5th March, 1762, and written on the back of a torn receipt for the <Jhi«eS0
Letters also in Goldsmith's handwriting; and I might have added -that though fourten
guineas would seem thus to have comprised the entire munificent-payment for the
of Nash, he made some curious and important additions, dictated doubtless by a
love of the subject, in Ms second impression of the book. And for an intere
recollection of Goldsmith's occasional visits to Bath, here mentioned, let me refer
reader to Mr. Mangiu's letter to myself, at p. 442-443. ^
P. 302. "Hitherto careless" at line 17, should have been " As yet restriotacl.
At p. 307 and p. 308, I ought to have given a reference to Grainger's Letters, & &)
26, &c.
P. 308. I meant to have added to that admirable saying of Johnson's at the e».<3L of
the last note, these lines from Swift's Journal to Stella. " Tliere is something °f
" farce in all these mournings, let them be ever so serious. People will pretend ^°
"grieve more than they really do, and that takes off from their true grief." TPcirw*)-
iii. 196.
P. 309-310. In further proof of the not unkindly feeling of Johnson to Foo1>€** »
characteristic letter to Mrs. Thrale on hearing of his death in 1776 was worth quotiMfif.
" Did you see Foote at Brightelmstone ? Did you think he would so soon, be
"Life, says Falstaff, is a shuttle. He was a fine fellow in Ms way ; and
"world is really impoverished by his slaking glories. Murphy ought to •wri'ta
"life, at least to give the world a Footeana, Now, will any of Ms oontemporsuvloa
" bewail him ? Will Genius change his sex to weep ? I would really have MB life
" written with diligence." Piozzi Letters, i. 396.
P. 312. In connection with Goldsmith's visit to the Cherokee kings, let* wcio
mention Foote's, the rather because the passage (written by Mrs. Thrale in ITS'!)
shows what the impression was that remained among the set as to Gt'oldmai'fclt'i
philosophy about rich and poor, luxury and simplicity, many years after he had p&Knacsd
away. " It has been thought by many wise folks," she writes to Johnson, "tluvto "Wft
" fritter our pleasures airway by refinement, and when one reads Goldsmith's woarkw,
" either verse or prose, one fancies that in corrupt life there is more enjoyment——yet
"we should find little solace from ale-house merriment or cottage carousals, who/fee ver
" the lest wrestler on the green might do I suppose ; mere brandy and brown, magpor
" liquewr, like that which Foote presented the Cherokee kings "with, and wott. felaoir
" hearts from our fine ladies who treated them with sponge biscuits and frontinlcMX "
Letters, ii. 215. For a ^further account of Peter Annet, see Hawkins's X?j% etf
Johnson, 566.
P. 314. With the hope that some possible trace might be found of this applioatJon,
or memorial, which there is no reason to doubt was really sent by Gfoldsmith 'to tlie
first minister, Lord Dudley Stuart was so kind, at my request, as to cause strict seoroli to
be made through the voluminous and very interesting unpublished correspondence of
Lord Bute. But nothing was discovered of it, or in any way bearing upon it.
P. 320. George Steevens's account of Levett appeared in the Gentleman's Mafy€tm4<rw
for February, 1785.
Pages-322, 323, 326, 327, 370, 371, 400. For additions to tha.Newbery and