JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784). Autograph letter signed ('I am, my dearest dear Your most affectionate Servant Sam: Johnson'), to Lucy Porter, ('Dearest Madam'), Inner Temple Lane [London], 13 January 1761, one page, 4to , integral address leaf (tiny splits touching 3 words without loss of legibility, slightly scorched at seal tear in address leaf, small slit in central horizontal fold). Provenance : Lucy Porter (d.1786); Revd. John Batteridge Pearson (1749-1808, formerly curate of Lichfield), her principal legatee; Philip Pennant Pearson (his grandson, and the godson and heir of David Pennant), who took the name Pennant in 1860 on inheriting the Pennant estates at Nantlys; by descent to the present owners.
JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784). Autograph letter signed ('I am, my dearest dear Your most affectionate Servant Sam: Johnson'), to Lucy Porter, ('Dearest Madam'), Inner Temple Lane [London], 13 January 1761, one page, 4to , integral address leaf (tiny splits touching 3 words without loss of legibility, slightly scorched at seal tear in address leaf, small slit in central horizontal fold). Provenance : Lucy Porter (d.1786); Revd. John Batteridge Pearson (1749-1808, formerly curate of Lichfield), her principal legatee; Philip Pennant Pearson (his grandson, and the godson and heir of David Pennant), who took the name Pennant in 1860 on inheriting the Pennant estates at Nantlys; by descent to the present owners. A NEW YEAR LETTER TO HIS STEP-DAUGHTER: 'I ought to have begun the new year with repairing the omissions of the last'. Johnson wishes Lucy 'long life and happiness always encreasing [ sic ] till it shall at last end in the happiness of heaven'. He meanwhile is 'pretty much disordered by a cold and cough', has just been 'blooded' and asks her to give his love to 'Kitty'. Lucy Porter (1715 -1786) was the daughter of Dr Johnson's wife, Elizabeth (1688/9-1752), by her first marriage to Henry Porter, a Birmingham mercer who died in 1734. Johnson married Elizabeth, known as 'Hetty' and twenty years older than himself, in 1735. When he moved with her to London, Lucy stayed with Johnson's mother at Lichfield, and assisted her in running the bookshop. In 1763 Lucy inherited money from her elder brother, enabling her to build a substantial house of her own in Lichfield where Johnson sometimes visited her. Johnson is recorded as having been 'ever attentive and kind' to Lucy while she was often ungracious in return. He remarked to Mrs Thrale that 'Lucy ... considers me one of the external and accidental things that are to be taken or left without emotion'. By the late 1770s she seems to have become more kindly disposed to him. 'Kitty' was Catherine Chambers (1708-1768), officially Johnson's mother's maid but much more than a servant, who came to live with them in 1724, and cared for Sarah Johnson devotedly in her last illness. Mrs Johnson died in January 1759.
JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784). Autograph letter signed ('I am, my dearest dear Your most affectionate Servant Sam: Johnson'), to Lucy Porter, ('Dearest Madam'), Inner Temple Lane [London], 13 January 1761, one page, 4to , integral address leaf (tiny splits touching 3 words without loss of legibility, slightly scorched at seal tear in address leaf, small slit in central horizontal fold). Provenance : Lucy Porter (d.1786); Revd. John Batteridge Pearson (1749-1808, formerly curate of Lichfield), her principal legatee; Philip Pennant Pearson (his grandson, and the godson and heir of David Pennant), who took the name Pennant in 1860 on inheriting the Pennant estates at Nantlys; by descent to the present owners.
JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784). Autograph letter signed ('I am, my dearest dear Your most affectionate Servant Sam: Johnson'), to Lucy Porter, ('Dearest Madam'), Inner Temple Lane [London], 13 January 1761, one page, 4to , integral address leaf (tiny splits touching 3 words without loss of legibility, slightly scorched at seal tear in address leaf, small slit in central horizontal fold). Provenance : Lucy Porter (d.1786); Revd. John Batteridge Pearson (1749-1808, formerly curate of Lichfield), her principal legatee; Philip Pennant Pearson (his grandson, and the godson and heir of David Pennant), who took the name Pennant in 1860 on inheriting the Pennant estates at Nantlys; by descent to the present owners. A NEW YEAR LETTER TO HIS STEP-DAUGHTER: 'I ought to have begun the new year with repairing the omissions of the last'. Johnson wishes Lucy 'long life and happiness always encreasing [ sic ] till it shall at last end in the happiness of heaven'. He meanwhile is 'pretty much disordered by a cold and cough', has just been 'blooded' and asks her to give his love to 'Kitty'. Lucy Porter (1715 -1786) was the daughter of Dr Johnson's wife, Elizabeth (1688/9-1752), by her first marriage to Henry Porter, a Birmingham mercer who died in 1734. Johnson married Elizabeth, known as 'Hetty' and twenty years older than himself, in 1735. When he moved with her to London, Lucy stayed with Johnson's mother at Lichfield, and assisted her in running the bookshop. In 1763 Lucy inherited money from her elder brother, enabling her to build a substantial house of her own in Lichfield where Johnson sometimes visited her. Johnson is recorded as having been 'ever attentive and kind' to Lucy while she was often ungracious in return. He remarked to Mrs Thrale that 'Lucy ... considers me one of the external and accidental things that are to be taken or left without emotion'. By the late 1770s she seems to have become more kindly disposed to him. 'Kitty' was Catherine Chambers (1708-1768), officially Johnson's mother's maid but much more than a servant, who came to live with them in 1724, and cared for Sarah Johnson devotedly in her last illness. Mrs Johnson died in January 1759.
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