[F-8] Bishop Sanderson described his soul as ’infinitely polluted with sin.’  Walton’s Lives, ed. 1838, p. 396.

[F-9] Hume, writing in 1742 about his Essays Moral and Political, says:—­

’Innys, the great bookseller in Paul’s Church-yard, wonders there is not a new edition, for that he cannot find copies for his customers.’  J.H.  Burton’s Hume, i. 143.

[F-10] Nichols (Lit.  Anec. ii. 554) says that, on Dec. 7,

’Johnson asked him whether any of the family of Faden the printer were living.  Being told that the geographer near Charing Cross was Faden’s son, he said, after a short pause:—­“I borrowed a guinea of his father near thirty years ago; be so good as to take this, and pay it for me."’

[F-11] Nowhere does Hawkins more shew the malignancy of his character than in his attacks on Johnson’s black servant, and through him on Johnson.  With the passage in which this offensive caveat is found he brings his work to a close.  At the first mention of Frank (Life, p. 328) he says:—­

’His first master had in great humanity made him a Christian, and his last for no assignable reason, nay rather in despite of nature, and to unfit him for being useful according to his capacity, determined to make him a scholar.’

But Hawkins was a brutal fellow.  See ante, i. 27, note 2, and 28, note 1.

[F-12] Johnson had written to Taylor on Oct. 23 of this year:—­

’"Coming down from a very restless night I found your letter, which made me a little angry.  You tell me that recovery is in my power.  This indeed I should be glad to hear if I could once believe it.  But you mean to charge me with neglecting or opposing my own health.  Tell me, therefore, what I do that hurts me, and what I neglect that would help me.”  This letter is endorsed by Taylor:  “This is the last letter.  My answer, which were (sic) the words of advice he gave to Mr. Thrale the day he dyed, he resented extremely from me."’ Mr. Alfred Morrison’s Collection of Autographs, &c., ii. 343.

‘The words of advice’ which were given to Mr. Thrale the day before the fatal fit seized him, were that he should abstain from full meals. Ante, iv. 84, note 4.  Johnson’s resentment of Taylor’s advice may account for the absence of his name in his will.

[F-13] They were sold in 650 Lots, in a four days’ sale.  Besides the books there were 146 portraits, of which 61 were framed and glazed.  These prints in their frames were sold in lots of 4, 8, and even 10 together, though certainly some of them—­and perhaps many—­were engravings from Reynolds.  The Catalogue of the sale is in the Bodleian Library.

APPENDIX G.

(Notes on Boswell’s note on page 408.)

[G-1] Mrs. Piozzi records (Anecdotes, p. 120) that Johnson told her,—­