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OF
DOCTOR BURNEY.
MEMOIRS
OF
DOCTOR BURNEY,
FROM HIS OWN MANUSCRIPTS, FROM FAMILY PAPERS, AND
FROM PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS,
BY
HIS DAUGHTER, MADAME d’ARBLAY.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
LONDON:
EDWARD MOXON, 64, NEW BOND STREET.
1832.
LONDON:
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS,
BOUVERIE STREET.
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MEMOIRS
OF
DOCTOR BURNEY.
DR. JOHNSON.
Towards the end of this year, Dr. Johnson began again to nearlymonopolize the anxious friendship of Dr. Burney.
On the 16th of November, Dr. Johnson, in the carriage, and underthe revering care of Mr. Windham, returned from Litchfield to themetropolis; after a fruitless attempt to recover his health bybreathing again his natal air.
The very next day, he wrote the following note to St. Martin’s-street.
“To Dr. Burney.
“Mr. Johnson, who came home last night, sends[Pg 2]his respects to dear Dr. Burney; and to all the dear Burneys, little and great.
“Bolt Court, 17th Nov. 1784.”
Dr. Burney hastened to this kind call immediately; but had the griefto find his honoured friend much weakened, and in great pain; thoughcheerful, and struggling to revive. All of the Doctor’s family who hadhad the honour of admission, hastened to him also; but chiefly hissecond daughter, who chiefly and peculiarly was always demanded.
She was received with his wonted, his never-failing partiality; and, aswell as the Doctor, repeated her visits by every opportunity during theensuing short three weeks of his earthly existence.
She will here copy, from the diary she sent to Boulogne, an account ofwhat, eventually, though unsuspectedly, proved to be her last interviewwith this venerated friend.
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