Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Feb 7– Letter to The Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson (1755)

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Feb 7– Letter to The Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson (1755)

Summary: A grovelly one page letter! (Edit: I must've been half asleep when I wrote this. Not grovelly, sarcastic!)

Commentary: Well, it was only a page, so quick and easy tonight. It really just sounds like an overly humble letter to a patron, not much to say. (Edit: Overly humble because it's sarcastic.)

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