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
March 11. To ditto.....220

Carried forward.....£20 4 0lace; and Johnson then took Levett home, where he continued till his death.