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OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S LIFE AND TIMES. [BOOK m.
1762. constant and unremitting than ever, new and closer arrange-
Mi. 34. ments with Newbery would seem, to indicate. The publisher
made himself, with certain prudent limitations, Mrs. Fleming's
paymaster; board and lodging were to be charged £50 a-year (the reader has to keep in mind that this would be now nearly double that amount), and, when the state of their accounts permitted it, to be paid each quarter by Mr. Newbery; the publisher taking credit for these payments in his literary settlements with Goldsmith. The first quarterly payment had become due on the 24th of March 1763; and on that day the landlady's claim of £12 10s. made up to ,£14 by
1763. " incidental expenses," was discharged by Newbery. It
JEUJ5. stands-as one item in an account of his cash advances for
the first nine months of 1763, which characteristically
exhibits the relations of bookwriter and bookseller. Mrs. Fleming's bills recur at their stated intervals; and on the 8th of September, there is a payment of £15 to William Filby the tailor. The highest advance in money is one (which is not re- peated) of three guineas; the rest vary, with intervals of a week or so between each, from two guineas to one guinea and half a guinea. The whole amount, from January to October 1763, is little more than £96; upwards of £60 of which Goldsmith had meanwhile satisfied by " copies of different kinds," when on settlement day he gave his note for the balance.* "What these " copies " in every case were, it is not so easy
* " Doctor Goldsmith Dr. to John Newbery.
1761. Oct. 14. Isetofthelcfe . . .£050
1762. Nov. 9. To cash.....10 10 0
Dec. 22. To ditto . . . . 330
29. To ditto.....110
1763. Jan. 22. To ditto . . . . 110
25. To ditto.....110
Feb. 14. To ditto . . . . 110
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