This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1792 edition. Excerpt: ... Extract Of A Letter From Miss Seward Tq Dr Bosweli. On The Subject Of Er Johnson. For the Bte. The folfowmg dialogue was obligingly communicated to the Editor, by a gentleman of sirt eminence in the-literary world, wjtk an, assurance of his having many reasons to be satisfied that i.t is. a genu'ne, perform rnance of the lady whose name it bears. Mr Boswell has given amuck Jess Interesting or characteristic account of this dialogue in the second.. Tolultxe of his life of Johnson, p. zyi. You aikrae for the minutes I once made of a certain conversation which passed at Mr IMlly's in ft literary party; and in which Dr Johnson and Mrs Knowles disputed so warmly? As you seem to have an idea of inserting this dispute in your future me ditated work, the life of Dr Johnson, it is necessary that something mould be known concerning the young person who was the subject of it. Miss Jenny Harry was, for flie is now no more, the daughter of a rich planter in the West Indies "who sent her to England to receive her education, at the house of his friend Mr, where an ingenious quaker lady, Mrs Knowles, was frequently a visitor. This gentleman affected wit, and was perpetually rallying Mrs Knowles on the subject of her quaker principles, in the presence of this young, gentle, and ingenuous Miss Harry, who, at the age of eighteen, had received what is called a proper and polite education, without having been much instructed in the nature and grounds of her religious belief. Mrs Knowles was often led into a serious defence of her devotional opinions, upon those visits at Barn Elms. You know with what oleaT and graceful eloquence Ihe speaks onevery subject. Her antagonists were shallow theologists, and opposed only idle and pointless raillery to duty, and long...