CHAPTER IX.

THE AEEEST AND WHAT PRECEDED IT.
1763—1764.

1763. GOLDSMITH'S removal from the apartments of Newbery's
JBt.35. relative in Wine Office Court, to his new lodging on the
library stair-case of the Temple, took place in an early
month of 1764, and seems to connect itself with circum-
stances at the close of 1763 which indicate a less cordial
understanding between himself and Newbery. He had
ceased writing for the British Magazine; was contemplating
an extensive engagement with James Dodsley; and had
attempted to open a connection with Tonson of the Strand.
The engagement with Dodsley went as far as a formal signed
agreement (for a Chronological History of the Lives of
eminent Persons of Great Britain and Ireland), in which, the
initials of medical bachelor are first assumed by him; and
at the close of which another intimation of his growing
importance appears, in the stipulation that " Oliver
" Goldsmith shall print his name to the said work." It was
.to be in two volumes, octavo, of the size and type of the
Universal History; each volume was to contain thirty-
five-sheets ; Goldsmith was to be paid at the rate of three
guineas a sheet; and the whole was to be delivered in the
space of two years at farthest. But nothing came of it.g and peering