A Bookseller of the Last Century: Being Some Account of the Life of John Newbery and of the Books He Published with a Notice of the Later Newberys Book

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and Francis Newbery says that at this time Goldsmith owed him upwards of 200. These Newbery MSS., collected by Newbery's grandson, from which Goldsmith's biographers have so copiously quoted, cannot now be found. At least all the efforts I have made to trace them have not been rewarded with success. I have therefore been content to let Mr Forster tell the story of Newbery's relations with Goldsmith, as I am without original materials for reconstructing it from the Newbery side. This account has led us a little out of the chronological order of the events of Newbery's life, of which we now resume the thread by going back to the year 1761, when we find him still further extending his medicine business by the agreement, of which we give a facsimile. This is interesting as being in the handwriting of Robert Raikes, the printer of Gloucester, who was so largely instrumental in the founding of Sunday schools, and whose sister was married to Newbery's son Francis. his health, I find sundry pencil marks in Newbery's handwriting, which are probably our last remaining trace of his farewell visit to his favourite Society of Arts, of the jokes he heard there, of the good offices he did there, of the mistakes for which half learned members got laughed at by the learned there. You can't lay an egg but you must cackle. Lent Dr Goldsm1th for his instrument, I 0s. 6d. Combing the horse's tail. Mr Hely's mistaking Tully's Latin for bad Latin. This letter forms part of the Newbery MSS. in Mr Murray's possession, often referred to in this biography. (Forster.) The following extract from The Gloucester Journal of About the year 1762 Newbery contemplated a Child's Grammar, and he offered the task of compiling it, for ten guineas, to one Peter Annet, who had made himself notorious by a crus...