James L. Clifford papers, 1774-1978

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Series IV: Biographies of Samuel Johnson by James Clifford


Subseries IV.1: Young Samuel Johnson


Correspondence and Reviews



Box 25 Young Samuel Johnson--misc. publishers


Box 25 McGraw-Hill edition


Box 25 Reviews of Young Samuel Johnson


Box 25 YSJ--Mistakes and corrections


Box 25 Illustrations for Young Samuel Johnson


Box 25 Letters about YSJ (after publication)


Box 25 Letters about YSJ, (2 folders)


Box 25 YSJ--extra reviews


Box 25 Photographs, Illustrations for Young Sam Johnson Oversized


Manuscripts and research materials



Box 26 Chapter I Here is a Brave Boy, (2 folders)


Box 26 Chapter II "Lichfield


Box 26 Lichfield--Descriptive


Box 26 Chapter 'III, Grammar School


Box 26 Chapter IV "Bookseller' s Boy!'


Box 26 Chapter V "Stourbridge"


Box 26 Chapter VI "Walmesley"



Box 27 Chapter VIII "Dejection" (1729-1735)


Box 27 Chapter IX "Tetty and Edial'"


Box 27 Chapter X "London"


Box 27 Chapter XI I" Slow Rises Worth"



Box 28 Chapter XII "A Country Interlude"


Box 28 Chapter XIII "London Cronies"


Box 28 Chapter XIV "Gentleman's Magazine"


Box 28 Chapter XV "Bookseller's Hack"


Box 28 Chapter XVI "A Harmless Drudge"


Box 28 Chapter 1YI "Drudge" (dictionary)


Box 28 Chapter XVII "Vanity"


Box 28 Michael Johnson--early career


Box 28 Michael Johnson--bookselling and business


Box 28 Nathaniel Johnson--SJ's brother


Box 28 Parson Ford


Box 28 Undated anecdotes, Undated


Box 28 Related printed material


Subseries IV.2: Dictionary Johnson: Samuel Johnson's Middle Years



Box 29 Manuscripts and research materials


Box 29 Johnson--his books and manuscripts


Box 29 Early plan of book (later altered)


Box 29 Chapter I "The New Playwright"


Box 29 Chapter I--Irene Production


Box 29 Chapter II "Life in.Gough Square"


Box 29 Gough Square House


Box 29 London Life article


Box 29 Chapter II


Box 29 City Life


Box 29 Street lighting, etc.


Box 29 Muggings


Box 29 Privies, etc



Box 30 Chapter III "Ivy Lane Club and Old Friends"


Box 30 Early friends--club


Box 30 Chapter IV "Lexicographer at Work"


Box 30 1748-1749--Lauder


Box 30 1750--Douglas


Box 30 Accounts of the Lauder Affair


Box 30 Lauder--other writings


Box 30 Lauder--1751-1754


Box 30 1747--Lauder


Box 30 Lauder


Box 30 Lauder controversy



Box 31 Chapter V "The Rambler"


Box 31 "The Rambler", (3 folders)


Box 31 Chapter VI "Cast of Tetty"


Box 31 Illness--Tetty's death


Box 31 Funeral and problems


Box 31 Chapter VII "Widower-Adventurer"


Box 31 The Adventurer


Box 31 Johnson and foreign visitors



Box 32 Chapter IX "Dictionary"


Box 32 Dictionary.


Box 32 Dictionary--additional articles and offprints


Box 32 Dictionary--bibliography


Box 32 Dictionary--details


Box 32 Dictionary--offprints and articles


Box 32 Chapter X "Still the Hack"



Box 33 Chapter XI "The Literary Magazine", (3 folders)


Box 33 Miscellaneous pieces, 1755-1760


Box 33 Chapter XU "The Idler", (2 folders)


Box 33 Dodsley and the Cleone Affair


Box 33 Shakespeare and new friends


Box 33 Shakespeare editor


Box 33 Shakespeare-proposals and new friends



Box 34 Chapter XIII "Rasselas", (3 folders)


Box 34 Rasselas Miscellaneous and offprints


Box 34 Talk on Rasselas


Box 34 Changes of residence, 1758-1760


Box 34 Chapter XIV "Struggles to Keep Alive"


Box 34 Society of Artists


Box 34 Chapter XV "Friend and Talker"



Box 35 Chapter XVI "Pension"


Box 35 Anonymous letter--Pension, (2 folders)


Box 35 Attacks after Pension, North. Britain


Box 35 Satirical Prints


Box 35 Chapter XVII "Trip to Devon"


Box 35 Reynolds manuscript--1762 trip to Devon, (2 folders)


Box 35 Chapter XVIII--meeting with Boswell


Box 35 Life in London, Fall, 1762


Research Material--Subject Files



Box 36 Miscellaneous anecdotes, cannot date


Box 36 Later anecdotes


Box 36 Barber, Francis


Box 36 Baretti, Joseph, (2 folders)


Box 36 Bathurst, Dr.


Box 36 Beattie, James


Box 36 Beauclerk


Box 36 Bennett, James, of Hoddesdon


Box 36 Birch, Thomas


Box 36 Boothby, Hill


Box 36 Boskovic


Box 36 Burke, Edmund


Box 36 Burney


Box 36 Burnham Manuscript



Box 37 Carter, Elizabeth


Box 37 Casanova


Box 37 Cave, Edward


Box 37 Celebration of 200th Anniversary of the Dictionary


Box 37 Chesterfield, Lord


Box 37 Cock-Lane ghost


Box 37 Collins, William


Box 37 Cottrell, Frances and Charlotte


Box 37 Cradock, Joseph


Box 37 Cowpe's


Box 37 D'Arblay, Mme. and H.L.P., 1815-1818


Box 37 Davies, Tom


Box 37 Desmoulins, Mrs. [Elizabeth]


Box 37 Derrick, Samuel


Box 37 Dodsley, Robert


Box 37 Douglas, John


Box 37 Edwards, Thomas


Box 37 Ellis, John


Box 37 Elphinstone, James


Box 37 Fielding letters


Box 37 Foote.


Box 37 Friends, 1749-1763


Box 37 Garrick, David


Box 37 Goldsmith, Oliver


Box 37 Grainger, James


Box 37 Guildhall Records Correspondence


Box 37 Hamilton, William Gerard


Box 37 Hanway Matter, (2 folders)


Box 37 Harris, James papers


Box 37 Hawkesworth, J.


Box 37 Hawkins, Sir John


Box 37 Hill, John


Box 37 Hogarth Portrait


Box 37 Hollis diary


Box 37 Hoole, John


Box 37 Hume, David


Box 37 Illustrations



Box 38 James, Dr. Robert


Box 38 Jenyns, Soame


Box 38 L.F.P.•vol. Johnson, ~wwell


Box 38 Langton


Box 38 Lauder


Box 38 Lawrence, Dr. Thomas


Box 38 Lennox Papers


Box 38 LeNoir, Elizabeth


Box 38 Levet, Dr. Robert


Box 38 Lyttelton


Box 38 Malone, Edmund


Box 38 Maxwell, John


Box 38 Miscellaneous Correspondence


Box 38 Miscellaneous Research


Box 38 Murphy, Axthur


Box 38 Newbery


Box 38 Nichols, John


Box 38 Orrery, Earl of


Box 38 Paul, Lewis


Box 38 Payne, John


Box 38 Percy, Thomas


Box 38 Political and economic writings


Box 38 Porter, Lucy


Box 38 Psalmanazar


Box 38 Reynolds, Frances


Box 38 Reynolds manuscript


Box 38 Reynolds Family letters


Box 38 Richardson, Samuel


Box 38 Ryland, John



Box 39 Shakespeare


Box 39 Shaw's Life of S.J.


Box 39 Shenstone


Box 39 Shiels, Robert


Box 39 Simpson, Joseph


Box 39 Smart, Kit


Box 39 Smollett


Box 39 Bteevens, George


Box 39 Strahan, William


Box 39 T. L. S., Johnson controversy


Box 39 Talbot Manuscript


Box 39 Taylor, Dr. John


Box 39 Thornton, Bonnel


Box 39 Twining, Thomas


Box 39 Tyers, Tom


Box 39 Wartons


Box 39 Williams, Anna


Box 39 Williams, Zachariah


Research Materials: Chronological Files



Box 40 Samuel Johnson Chronology, 1709-1784


Box 40 January -June, 1749


Box 40 July -December, 1749


Box 40 January -June, 1750


Box 40 July -December, 1750


Box 40 January -June, 1751


Box 40 July -December, 1751


Box 40 January -December, 1752


Box 40 July -TIecember, 1752


Box 40 January -June, 1753


Box 40 July -December, 1753


Box 40 January -June, 1754


Box 40 July -December, 1754


Box 40 January -June, 1755


Box 40 July -December, 1755


Box 40 John Maxwell letter;, August -September, 1755


Box 40 1756-1759 New Friends and help for them, 1756-1759


Box 40 January -June, 1756


Box 40 July -December, 1756


Box 40 January -July, 1757


Box 40 July -December, 1757



Box 41 January -June, 1758


Box 41 July -December, 1758


Box 41 January -June, 1759


Box 41 July -December, 1759


Box 41 January -June, 1760


Box 41 July -December, 1760


Box 41 January -June, 1761


Box 41 July -December 1761


Box 41 January -June, 1762


Box 41 July -December, 1762


Box 41 January -June, 1763


Box 41 July -December, 1763


Box 41 Later years, 1760-1763


Box 41 Chronological binder, 1749-1763