With these two volumes Princeton University Press concludes the first scholarly edition of the letters of Samuel Johnson to appear in forty years. Volume IV chronicles the last three years of Johnson's life, an epistolary endgame that includes the breakup of the friendship with Hester Thrale and a poignant reaching out to new friends and new experi
Author Biography
Bruce Redford is Professor of English at the University of Chicago and the author of "The Converse of the Pen: Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter" (Chicago).
